Border, Breed Nor Birth

Border, Breed Nor Birth is by Mack Reynolds, and its text is marked "Part 1 of Two." A character named El Hassan is called a "would-be tyrant of all North Africa" who "was on the run." Arrayed against "him and his dream" is "the combined power of the world in the form of the Reunited Nations," along with powers such as the United States of the Americas, the Soviet Complex, Common Europe, the French Community, the British Commonwealth and the Arab Union.

In Dakar, Sven Zetterberg is the Swedish head of the Sahara Division of the African Development Project of the Reunited Nations, and Homer Crawford, head of a five-man trouble-shooting team, "had reported for orders." Zetterberg snaps that "you and your team are our most competent operatives" and that "we've given you the assignment of finding El Hassan." Ostrander says he knows Colonel Midan Ibrahim and "met him in Cairo and in Baghdad on various occasions," adding "He's considered one of the best men in the Arab Legion."