Word: sahara
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...pages of color in August on Southeast Asia showed the look - the beauty, the languor, the hardships, the progress - of a place that has become a cold war battleground. And the narrow alleys of the Casbah and the modern technological city of Colomb-Bechar (the Cape Canaveral of the Sahara), as shown in eight pages of color on Algeria last April, coincided with the news of the Generals' Revolt in Algiers...
...going Communist. Moscow may find it difficult to bind this willful, unpredictable force to a Soviet-made troika, even in the cases of such left-leaning states as Ghana, Guinea and Mali, which sent "observers" to the Communist Party Congress. Nigeria, the most stable former colony south of the Sahara, and the Brazzaville group of twelve former French territories are especially suspicious of Red intentions. The Congo, once Moscow's sharpest spearhead in Africa, may be inching toward stability even though Communist embassies are reappearing in Leopoldville...
Concessions on independence, the Sahara, and control of the economically rich area where Frenchmen live, have all been made, he said, with France only demanding guarantee of protection for the French citizens there...
...willing to give Algeria to anyone willing to take it. ''In brief." rumbled De Gaulle, "we are not at all anxious to be the possessors and the keepers of this region." With that as preamble, he set aside the whole question of sovereignty over the oil-rich Sahara Desert region, which had been the sticking point in the last round of talks with Algeria's F.L.N. nationalists. "The realities are that there is not one Algerian-I know this-who does not believe that the Sahara should be a part of Algeria." It was a breathtaking concession...
...Gaulle was still sticking to France's demand that French interests be allowed to exploit the Sahara's oil development, and that France be guaranteed travel routes through the desert to the new nations of black Africa that once comprised the French Community. But De Gaulle's acceptance of Algerian sovereignty in the Sahara might well reopen the bargaining with the F.L.N. almost immediately, and Benyoussef Benkhedda promptly expressed himself interested...