Casebook of Success

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Schools & Water Wells. Spam's oth er African colonies are also moving ahead, though at a slower pace. In the Spanish Sahara, a wind-blown waste populated by 40,000 nomads and 20,000 troops and government officials, Spain is pouring $28 million into the de velopment of vast underground phos phate reserves — the world's largest —and spending another $9,000,000 a year to put up schools, dig water wells for tribesmen and persuade the suspicious Saharans that the Spanish are really on their side. In a recent referendum, 14,000 out of 16,000 persons voted to continue the Spanish Sahara's present territorial status.

In the sunny Canary Islands, 72 miles off Africa's northwest coast, Spain has created a bustling tourists' paradise, complete with golf courses, luxury ho tels and fancy restaurants. Spain's three other territories — Ifni on the West Coast and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla on the Mediterranean — are little more than army bases; yet even there, Spain has taken pains to make friends with neigh boring Arabs, sometimes offering them jobs and free medical care.