Algeria went to every country in the world, regardless of political hue, for aid and technical knowhow; American oil and gas men, Russian steel men, Japanese chemical engineers, Chinese military advisers, Spaniards, Britons and Romanians, West Germans and East Germans swarm about the country. Economic relations with France stabilised, if not harmonised, with the seal set upon them by President Giscard's state visit of April 1975. French technicians returned, so that the French colony in Algeria now already numbered some 65,000, including 7,000 teachers sent under the "cultural co-operation" clauses of Evian (one of the few provisions to survive).

XREF: Connects to Cold War non-aligned strategy — smaller nations pragmatically drew expertise from both blocs rather than aligning exclusively.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1678