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Last week Enrico Mattei proudly listed his accomplishments: "We're building seven refineries in Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana, Poland, Sicily, the Po Valley and Switzerland. We're building our own offshore drilling rigs. One is already in the Red Sea, two in the Persian Gulf, one will start soon in a gas field in the Adriatic. Just yesterday I returned from Rumania, where I sold $5,000,000 worth of equipment...
Such a victory was certainly not possible in Algeria, where 500,000 French soldiers have spent more than six years fruitlessly chasing handfuls of F.L.N. guerrillas over mountains and through deserts. To many observers, it seemed clear Challe planned to launch an invasion of Tunisia and wipe out the so-far-untouched F.L.N. bases where an estimated 20,000 rebels rest, train and refit for battle inside Algeria. In short, Challe saw himself doing the dirty work for De Gaulle and then handing over to him a fait accompli that De Gaulle could not easily refuse...
...colonial officials once barred Brown from Algeria. A Tunisian rebel, released after arrest by the French in 1955, telephoned Brown the moment he was free: "I will be over to see you in a few minutes. I am free, thanks to you." His name: Habib Bourguiba, today President of Tunisia...
...rigging the voting at Casablanca, Nkrumah's allies won their way last week, ramming through a resolution requiring all members of the new A.A.T.U.F. to drop their foreign affiliations within ten months. But Kenya's Tom Mboya, as well as other loyal I.C.F.T.U.-affiliated union leaders from Tunisia, Nigeria. Liberia and other countries, felt certain they could get the rules changed before the ten-month deadline was up. "We have lost the battle, but not the war," said Mboya grimly as he departed for home...
...take the offensive without bogging down in the mud. But some 5.000 white soldiers have arrived from Lisbon to beef up Angola's 2,000-man regular garrison. Roberto's forces are also grouping for a showdown. He claims that he is getting financial aid from Tunisia to fuel his revolt but denies that he is getting any help from Ghana (the Portuguese have admitted that they made a mistake in claiming the capture of 71 "Ghanaians"). "The Portuguese have been in Angola for 500 years and have done nothing but kill us." he cries...