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...atmosphere that hung last week over the self-contained little world called Hassi Messaoud (Blessed Well): the waves that billowed around it were of sand, not of water. Hassi Messaoud, the Dawson City of the great French oil rush of 1959, lies deep in the barren wastes of the Sahara, 400 miles (or three days by truck) south of Algiers...
...create this 20th century oasis has cost France dear; between them, two French oil firms-one 80% government-owned, the other 30% government-owned -have spent an estimated $300 million on Hassi Messaoud and its 40 producing oil wells. Similar sums are being spent at the Sahara's other major field-Edjelé -and 900 miles of Saharan pipeline will cost at least another $60 million...
...payoff has been slight: a scant 480,000 tons of oil last year (compared to Kuwait's 70 million tons). But the promise is enough to give some substance to Charles de Gaulle's dreams of the grandeur of France. For if the Sahara's already proven oil reserves-conservatively estimated at 700 million tons-can be successfully tapped and marketed, France will no longer have to lay out some $300 million a year in hard-won foreign exchange to pay for the oil needed to keep French industry and transport running. More important yet, France will...
...about it," said the President at his press conference. Secretary of State Herter, on the road to Geneva, would probably sound out De Gaulle on coming to the U.S. Some U.S. authorities believe that De Gaulle may stall until the French test-fire their first atom bomb in the Sahara this summer, and can thus enter NATO's inner nuclear club with stronger cards...
...private investors are already pouring a million dollars a day into schools and roads, water prospecting, and most of all, the development of the desert's proven oil and gas reserves. By 1964 France hopes to be pumping 30 million tons of oil a year out of the Sahara-almost the exact amount needed for domestic consumption. But if France is sold on the Sahara, the Sahara is not entirely sold on France. Last week, as self-styled commis voyageur (traveling salesman) for the Sahara, Soustelle flew in his ministerial plane straight into the scorched and craggy land...