Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fateful date that brought thousands of Moslem terrorists out of the hills (TIME, Aug. 29), claimed the lives of 92 Frenchmen and at least 1,000 Moroccans. But that was only a beginning; last week the Berber tribes were still on the rampage in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains that straddle central Morocco. Shouting horsemen, brandishing antique guns, swept into Khouribga, where the French own phosphate mines, joined up with the Arab miners and hacked 203 people to death. Near by, Moroccan iron workers in the town of Ait Amar dragged their bosses into the streets and tortured them...
French Attack. The French army met primitive savagery with mechanized ruthlessness. French regulars, supported by tanks, planes and field guns, rolled into the Atlas ranges. In the villages of central Morocco, French Legionnaires tore down houses and even tents. One French detachment was held up .by snipers firing from a house. The troops demolished the house with .75-mm. shells, then rolled over its ruins in a heavy tank. Feeble cries came from under the ruins, so the French backed up the tank and crunched it back and forth until no more cries came...
...French are determined to hang onto North Africa. The richest and most troubled part of it is Morocco. Larger than California and potentially as productive, Morocco is corrugated by the ranges of the Atlas Mountains. In the south is the Sahara, but in the north and west, along the Atlantic shore, Morocco abounds with vineyards, olive groves, forests and corn. More than 300.000 French colons, most of them settled in neat, irrigated farmsteads, have made its hillsides bloom. From its mines French engineers dig vast supplies of manganese and one-sixth of all the world's phosphates...
Pasha of Marrakech. His Excellency Hadj Thami El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, was born in the high Atlas about 80 years ago. His first profession was banditry, and he still rides round Morocco with a machine gun on his lap. Today, El Glaoui, still lean, dark and pantherish, is one of the world's richest men. He takes a tithe of the almond, saffron and olive harvests in his vast domain, owns huge blocks of stock in French-run mines and factories, gets a rebate on machinery and automobiles imported into his realm. As a sideline, he reputedly takes...
...with the Moroccans, the Moroccans committed the murders. Therefore, Grandval was an accomplice, ran the colon argument. Their passions burst forth one day last week at an elaborate military funeral held in Rabat. The funeral was for tough-minded French General Raymond Duval. whose light plane crashed in the Atlas foothills during the operations against the Berbers. Because Duval had opposed Grandval's policies, the fantastic rumor spread that the Resident had sabotaged the general's plane...