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...Party. In Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia, Concord magazine discussed a woman who works in a mine, said: "Her unique experiences as processed by a lively wit make the lady miner-when she takes off her trousers and puts on her cosmetics-the most amusing evening companion south of the Sahara...
...more than four years of war, Algeria had seen no bloodier fighting. Returning to old-style guerrilla tactics (but armed with new automatic weapons), the F.L.N. rebels struck in bands of 30 or less at isolated French outposts, mined the railway line leading from the Sahara oilfields. Trying to seal off the rebels' supply lines from neighboring Tunisia, the French gave as good as they got. The week's estimated casualty toll on both sides: more than...
Though no commercial oil has ever been found in Spain or Spanish possessions, geologists are almost unanimously optimistic. They think there is oil under the sands of the Spanish Sahara and Ifni (Spanish West Africa), and also in some areas of Spain itself. The bill also cheered U.S. businessmen, who hope that other foreign investments will be welcomed in Spain if drilling programs successfully bring in both dollars...
Cheering Bedouins. Landing at Constantine airport with Delouvrier unobtrusively at his side, De Gaulle stressed the civilian aspects of his Algerian visit. He gave General Salan only a perfunctory handshake, but hobnobbed enthusiastically with steel experts in Bone, oilmen in the Sahara, land-reclamation officers in the Moslem villages. At Touggourt, an oasis in the desert, De Gaulle told...
...bickering inside the Istiqlal; he asked Allal el Fassi, 48, the party's political leader, to become Premier. El Fassi is both a religious mystic and a rabble-rousing extreme nationalist who has led the agitation for a "Greater Morocco," to include large hunks of the French Sahara. He proposed too many leftist Cabinet ministers to suit the King. Last week the King saw little choice but to run the country himself, with a group of "technicians" as ministers. Under pressure from the politicians, the King has joined in demands for the total and unconditional withdrawal...