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...talk of the day when "we shall see materialize in the Sahara in a new way the modern activities of a big part of our industry." With more immediacy, he talks of building a power plant (to run on local deposits of natural gas) at the oasis of In Salah and of building a full-fledged town at Hassi Messaoud...
Habib Bourguiba told his Constituent Assembly: "We have the proof that our disagreement with the U.A.R. is more than a simple misunderstanding." In Cairo lives the exiled Salah ben Youssef, who once fought alongside Bourguiba in the battle for Tunisian independence. Ben Youssef, says Bourguiba, has made seven attempts to kill him, has organized a private army in southern Tunisia to snipe at Bourguiba's soldiers. Bourguiba now has evidence, he went on, that Nasser's government was egging on Ben Youssef's conspiracy...
...Land of the Blacks," which controls the upper waters of the Nile. In 1951 King Farouk presumptuously proclaimed himself "King of Egypt and the Sudan"; the Sudanese ignored him. During the Sudan's first parliamentary elections in 1953, the Egyptian army officers who overthrew Farouk dispatched Major Salah Salem to dance with the natives in his undershorts and ladle out a reported $5,000,000 trying to swing the Sudanese toward merger with Egypt; the Sudanese politicians took the money, rejected the merger and, in 1955, declared themselves independent. Last week, flushed with his success to the east, ambitious...
...dignity were both funny and pathetic. The NATO maneuvers were forgotten. To save what face they could, the Syrians moved Fortification Week ceremonies ahead, and President Shukri el Kuwatly dutifully dug his spade into Syrian soil, crying defiance to the "invader" even as in the U.N. his Foreign Minister Salah el Bitar conceded that the much-advertised threat of Turkish attack was not worth debating, and dropped Syria's demand for investigation...
...news conference later, Syrian Foreign Minister Salah Bitar declared that Syria was endangered as long as Turkish troops concentrate near the Syrian-Turkish frontier...