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...partnership and that Hassan, after more than a decade of swapping insults and threats with Gaddafi, had every hope of taming his mercurial new friend. In addition, said Guedira, the pact between the two countries would bolster Morocco's military strength against such inimical neighbors as Algeria and Tunisia without in any way jeopardizing its friendship with the U.S. But Administration officials, who now fear that arms and funds sent to Morocco may fall into the hands of Libya, remained unconvinced. In effect, admitted one senior official, "the U.S. read Guedira the riot...
...diplomatic sparks in many directions. Washington dispatched roving Ambassador Vernon Walters to Rabat to warn Hassan that an angry Congress might now try to block the $140 million in military and economic aid earmarked for Morocco in fiscal 1985. French President François Mitterrand sent a minister to Algeria and another to Chad; he himself dashed off to Rabat to see whether the new alliance could be of help in settling French differences with Libya in Chad. Even Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has not left his country since a serious heart attack ten months ago, traveled to Tripoli...
...annals of diplomacy, there are few suitors more ardent than Muammar Gaddafi. During his 15-year reign, the Libyan leader has proposed formal alliances with Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Chad, Sudan and Algeria. None of those marriages has endured...
...economic ills and wants to ensure that Gaddafi does not resume his support of the Polisario guerrillas that have plagued Morocco since 1976. Gaddafi hopes to end Libya's political isolation, especially from its nearest neighbors; he was nettled by his exclusion from a friendship treaty signed by Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania...
DIED. Raoul Salan, 85, taciturn French general who led an aborted April 1961 putsch aimed at preserving French rule in Algeria, then founded and led the terrorist Secret Army Organization, which fought Algerian independence with a campaign of bombings and assassinations, including several attempts on the life of President Charles De Gaulle; in Paris. Famous as France's most decorated soldier, Salan commanded colonial troops in Indochina in 1952 and 1953; he was named French dele gate-general in Algeria when De Gaulle came to power in 1958. De Gaulle proceeded toward independence and ousted Salan, who later went...