JPRS ID: 9780 NEAR EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORT

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10 June 1981
~lear East North Africa Re ort
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(FOUO 20/81)
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JPR~ L/9780
10 June 1981
" NEAR ERST/NORTH AFRICA REPORT
(FOUO 20/81)
CONTENTS
AI~GERIA
Chadli's Africa Tour, Ihssociation From Qadhdhafi Described
. (Hamza Kaidi; JEUNE AFRIQUE, 15 Apr 81) 1
Interview on Pegging Gas Price to Crude Oil Zevels
(Belkacem Nabi Interview; AFRI~UE~ASIE~ 27 Apr-10 May 81)...... 3
EGYPT
Infighting, Interplay Among Corimlwnists, Other I7issidents Revi.ewed
(AI,-WATAN AI~-'ARA,BI, 1-7 May 81) 7
- American Aid, Intelligence Infiltration Flayed
' (AL-WATAN AL-'ARABI, 2~-30 Apr 81) ..................o......... 15
IftAQ
Trade With FRG Stepped Up
(8 DAYS, 11 Apr 81) 23
KUWAIT
Capital Rise for KFAEC Reported
(8 DAYS, 11 Apr 81) 24
MaROCCO
Moroccan Phosphates: A Formidable Stake
(Philippe Simonnot; JEUNE AFRIQUE, 15 Apr 81) 26
TUNISIA
Survey of Tunisian Political Class
(Souhayr Belhassen; JEUNE AFRIQUE, 15 Apr 81) 29
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CHADLI'S AFRICA TOUR, DISSOCIATION FROri QADHDHAFI DESCRIBED
Pzriti JEUNE AFRTQUE in Freach 15 Apr 81 p 61
[Article by Hamza Kaidi: "Qadhdhafi, Don't Know ....--At the Time of His Major
Trip South of the Sahara, President Bendjedid Disassociated Himself From His Libyan
Ally"]
_ [Text] Eleven Black African countries in a dozen days, or one country per day on
tt~e average that was the *_rip Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid started on 28
March, wtiich was to take him to Mali, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Madz-
gascar, Seychelles, Tanzania, Congo, Niger and Nigeria.
_ Another "curious thing" is that this is the first time an Algerian chief of state
has visited so many sub-Saharan countries. During his brief term of office (Septem-
ber 1962 to June 1965) Ahmed Ben Bella went to Ethiopia in 1963 for the conference
whic}i set up the OAU and to several West African countries (Senegal, Mali, Ghana
and Liberia). Then there was Guinea in 1964. Houari Boume3ienne, more concerned
witfi tlie Arab World and socialist countries, only went to Ghana, on the occasion of
~ the second OAU summit (Accra, October 1965).
- Progressives and Moderates
- Things started to change in 1976 with the Sahara affair and the proclamation of the
SDAR (Saharan Democratic Arab Republic). Algerian arguments in this affair had much
more of an echo in Black Africa than in the Arab World. The SDAR was recognized
mostly by African countries, while among the Arabs it only chalked up belated recog-
nition from two countries, South Yemen and Libya, if one does not count Syria's semi-
recogniticn.
So it is not by chance that among the 11 countries visited by President Chadli 9
have recognized the SDAR (Angola, Congo, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Seychelles,
Tanzania, 7.ambia and Zimbabwe). But to link this trip only to the Sahara affair
would be an exaggeration. Though the Algerian president went to "progressive" coun-
tries which are po].itically close to Algeria3 he also visited moderate countries
which, moreover, have not recognized the SDAR Niger and Nigeria.
Common Interests
~ It is not forgotten in Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe that Algeria was one of tt~e
countries most involved in supporting liberation movements. In Luanda people are
inclined to remember that Angolan resistance fighters were trained in the ranks of
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the I~I,N even before Algerian independence, and that the first armored vehicles re-
~�eived by tile MPLA in 1975 in i_ts stru~gle against UNI~A [National Union for the
'Cotal I:ndependence of AngolaJ and the FNLA were sent by hlgiers.
Witlt re~;ard to the countries classed as moderates, and aware of Nigeria's importance,
the Algerians have always made an effort to maintain good relations. With Niger
there h