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...Algeria. After a four-hour Cabinet conference last week, he enplaned for Algeria, his fifth visit to the war-torn territory since taking office. Before leaving, he created the post of Inspector General of National Defense as a niche into which General Raoul Salan, the Algerian commander in chief, could be gracefully moved. Salan's position of power will be diluted into a two-man job. The civilian functions will go to a brilliant civil servant, Paul Delouvrier, 44, the financial head of the European Coal and Steel Community, who recently completed a fact-finding tour of Algeria...
Summoning the top officers of the armed forces, General Ne Win defined his main tasks as 1) providing free and fair elections within six months, and 2) bringing peace to war-torn Burma. He ordered his officers to take "stern measures" against the Red insurgents in the countryside and their fifth columns in the towns and cities. He charged his officers to be "umpires" between the competing political parties girding for the spring elections, and cautioned them "to take very good care that no one will be able to accuse you of showing favor to this one or suppressing that...
Last week Dorothy Thompson went off the record. The time had come, she wrote in a farewell column, for her to "relive my life" in preparation for her ninth and most ambitious book: an autobiography that would also be a personal history of her war-torn times...
...French had gone to considerable trouble and expense to make the celebration possible. Sahara oil has become one of France's main reasons for refusing to yield war-torn Algeria. Politicians have held it up as treasure trove that would restore France to riches and greatness. The Hassi Messaoud field alone has estimated reserves of at least 200 million metric tons-ten times France's present annual consumption. With two years to wait for a full-sized 24-in. pipeline from the Sahara to the Mediterranean coast, the French strung the baby pipeline across 93 miles of desert...
...gang of wildcatters toiling after oil in the broiling Sahara sun found themselves regarded last week as France's best hope of the future. Their latest dramatic find, tapped and capped at Hassi Messaoud, in the southeastern quarter of war-torn Algeria, skyrocketed shares of the Compagnie Française des Pétroles from 34,000 francs last year to 61,000 francs two weeks ago. From Hassi Messaoud and neighboring Algerian fields recently opened, there was now the promise of an assured yield of 60 million bbl. of oil a year. (Controlled 1956 production by U.S. wells...