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Against Neo-Colonialism N February 22nd President Ben Bella of Algeria opened a oneweek Afro-Asian economic seminar, at which subjects ranging from agrarian teform to the struggle against imperialism and neo-colonialism will be debated. The President said that new economic relation must be worked out by Afro-Asian countries. He accepted the fact that economies of many African states (including Algeria) were closely tied to Western Europe » at present but said this was a situation which had to be changed. The seminar has been organised by the Afro-Asian solidarity movement which has its headquarters in Cairo. Delegates from many parts of Africa and Asia are attending. Increased trade exchanges between the two continents will be discussed here, and joint industrial develop-

ment projects are another subject on the agenda. Also down for discussion is the possibility of formluating a new, perhaps common, Afro-Asian policy towards the European Common Market, but observers here noted that some of the African countries chiefly interested in the Market, such as Nigeria, Senegal and most of the former French territories, are not represented at the seminar. Apart from subjects with an intrinsically political background, the seminar will debate items of basic economic interest to both Asia and Africa, such as training schemes, the role of the public sector in national economies, economic planning, and how and under what conditions foreign financing of industrial projects can be acceptable.

—Pat Jordan

As a result, the efforts of Ameri-

can military advisers are frequently

wasted. Writing in The New Republic

(4.3.63), Jerry Rose cites a typical

instance: “the Vietnamese streamed

into Plei Mrong and the surrounding

jungles. An artillery unit came to

flail wildly at the forests; so did T-28

fight bombers. Six companies of

Vietnamese soldiers were parachuted

in to block the path of the fleeing

enemy. But they made no contact

with the guerrillas. Why?

Perhaps an American helicopter

pilot had the explanation. “Yester-

day,” he said, “I dropped a whole

bunch of those Vietnamese troops

into a field. Today I went back to

the same field with another load and

you know what I saw? That first

group was still there in the field.

tents up and cooking lunch. They

hadn’t moved a damned inch.”

Who said the good

Schweik was a European?

soldier

—Raymond Challinor

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