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...base program last week was in trouble, both actual and potential. The actual trouble-which can be cured-is due to waste and inefficiency in the construction job itself. The potential trouble, which may be harder to deal with, is a whole complex of problems arising from French-Arab-U.S. relations...
...Generous Americans. So far the American invasion numbers 4,000 construction workers and 3,000 blue-uniformed airmen. Thirty-ton earth loaders, compactors and asphalt layers are changing the landscape, within sight of Arab and Berber shepherds who tend their flocks and think their own thoughts. The French administration welcomes the advent of U.S. capital and enterprise, but insists on keeping local wages down to check inflation. Many French bureaucrats, businessmen, speculators and colons (plantation owners) grumble that the generous, kindly Americans will spoil the inhabitants...
...hour." As many of these noble ladies were "barely literate," it was up to Beverley to invent their opinions in order to have something to report. The rest of his job was writing what the Dispatch called "caviar-and-champagne" items, e.g., MYSTERY DOCTOR DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF COUNTESS; ARAB PRINCE'S STRANGE HOBBY...
...I.P.C. had plenty of oil, capital and cooks (too many). But its trouble was not over. Its fields are smack in the middle of nowhere, and the two pipelines to the Mediterranean were greatly inadequate. I.P.C. began building new lines. One, through Palestine, was stopped by the Arab-Israeli war, and has never been completed. Another, through Lebanon, was finished but quickly proved too small. A third, through Syria, ran afoul of Syrian government scheming...
Tangier is only too ready to oblige. Like bugs out of the woodwork, a string of unsavory characters creeps into Dyar's empty world. There is Hadija, an Arab prostitute, who gives him the illusion that he is capable of falling in love. There is Jack Wilcox, an American black-marketeer, who turns Dyar into an accomplice in his currency deals. There is Madame Jouvenon, the Soviet agent who hands him a fat check for "small bits of information." Before long, Dyar is able to feel that he is no longer "supremely anonymous." By the end of the novel...