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...same problems are equally important in other parts of the world. Many of the special problems of the Middle East are hardly mentioned in the Review. To be sure, A. J. Meyer's discussion of competition between Israel and Egypt in extending technical and economic aid to sub-Saharan Africa touches on the Arab-Israeli conflict, but it covers only a minor facet. The Review ignores Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the oil sheikdoms, and the Arab states of western North Africa, which are culturally, religiously, and politically--if not geographically--a part of the Middle East. No magazine could...
...Truman) as head of an eight-man mission to weigh the U.N.'s arms needs. Seven of the eight are members of a top-drawer planning group called JTF4 (for Joint Task Force 4), set up in 1961 to chart long-range military contingency plans for sub-Saharan Africa. As General Truman flew into Leopoldville, Swedish, Philippine and Italian fighter planes were headed toward the Congo for U.N. use, and 1,800 Indonesian infantrymen and a unit of 300 Norwegian antiaircraft gunners were en route to join the Congo force...
With the end of France's colonial empire, the Foreign Legion seems obsolete. Some units may stay in Saharan outposts until 1965; others have already been sent off to French Somaliland and Madagascar...
Goshal, who recently interviewed leaders of sub-Saharan Africa, repeatedly insisted that though nations like Ghana have just attained independence, the U.S. wrongly expects them to behave with the political sophistication that took America 200 years to develop...
Then the S.A.O. turned to Italy. Last summer they had sent a death warning to Italy's top industrialist, Enrico Mattei, because they suspected that he had made a deal with the rebel Moslem F.L.N. to exploit Saharan oil once France pulls out of Algeria. Last week, at Rome's Urbe airport, mechanics warmed up Mattei's sleek, twin-jet executive plane to carry him on a flight to Morocco to dedicate a new oil refinery at Mohammedia, where the top leadership of the F.L.N. was meeting. Hearing a peculiar noise in one of the French-built...