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...Moroccan harbor of Tangier, unloaded 3,400 tons of arms, including 14,000 rifles and automatic weapons, which were promptly shipped to the town of Oudjda near the Algerian border. Though the Moroccans last week insisted that the arms were for their own use, French intelligence agents believe the shipment was paid for by Red China. If so, it is the first tangible result of the recent visit of F.L.N. Chief Ferhat Abbas to Peking...
...notice was publicly posted when four radar picket destroyers escorted the 70-plane carrier Shangri-La southward from Florida into the Caribbean. In response to requests from Guatemala and Nicaragua, said President Eisenhower, the U.S. would maintain a patrol to halt the shipment of arms or volunteers from Castro's Cuba to aid revolutionaries in those Central American countries. The U.S. intention had been less formally asserted weeks before when part of the 8th Marine Expeditionary Unit, 1,500 men aboard the assault carrier Boxer and accompanying ships, began conducting training exercises in the Caribbean area...
...Algerian revolution would be dead. Your reaction at Melun proved your maturity. We were afraid you would disappoint us." In Manhattan Khrushchev hurried to get back on the revolutionary bandwagon, told the Algerians that only power counts, and proposed a two-stage assistance program. The first would be shipment of non-military supplies-which, to avoid provoking a general conflict, would be landed at allegedly neutral ports in Tunisia and Morocco. Last week the Soviet freighter Fatezh arrived at Tunis with a cargo of machine tools, tractors, cars, clothes and food for the rebels. The second phase is scheduled...
Once back in Hong Kong, the gold goes into the vaults of some 200 Chinese banks where it may be used for such delicate transactions as financing a shipment of Calcutta opium to Hong Kong or buying off Chinese Communist officials who have put the squeeze on the relatives of rich overseas Chinese businessmen. But the final market is most often India. Indian central bank officials estimate that India's private gold holdings exceed $3.6 billion (at the U.S. gold rate), up from $3.2 billion in 1948. The enormous trade in smuggled gold is a major reason India...
Earthquake Aid: Propaganda. Pamphlets, manifestoes, films and books pour from Havana to the hemisphere. Brazilian cops raiding a Cuban attache's hideout found posters calling for "Green and Yellow [Brazil's colors] Revolution." Chilean officials, looking through a ton and a half earthquake-relief shipment flown...