Word: barka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gray afternoon of Oct. 29, 1965, Mehdi Ben Barka-a self-exiled left-wing Moroccan politician and a well-known critic of King Hassan II -was stopped outside the Brasserie Lipp on Paris's Boulevard St. Germain by two French agents. "You have a rendezvous with some politicians," said one of them. Ben Barka, 45, who was accustomed to being tailed by the police, climbed into the back of an unmarked Peugeot 403. The car drove off. Ben Barka has not been seen in public since...
...disappearance of Ben Barka grew into a scandal that rocked France. Because of widespread rumors that French intelligence agencies were involved, President Charles de Gaulle ordered a full-dress inquiry. Frenchmen were appalled to discover that a Moroccan political refugee had been kidnaped and presumably murdered in France with the apparent help of the Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE) which was and is France's equivalent of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency...
Open Case. Ben Barka's corpse was never found, nor were his suspected murderers. Even though the scandal has died down, the case remains open. Last October, one day before the tenth anniversary of his father's disappearance, Ben Barka's son Bachir, 25, brought judicial proceedings under French law "against unknown persons" for murder and complicity to murder, a maneuver to prevent the statute of limitations from running...
TIME has learned that Ben Barka was indeed killed by three high Moroccan officials in an act of loyalty to King Hassan; one of them was former Interior Minister Mohammed Oufkir, who died in 1972; the other two were Moroccan agents, one of whom still holds an important position in the Rabat government; the other is reportedly still a Moroccan intelligence official. According to one of TIME'S sources, Ben Barka's body was interred in the garden of a villa at Fontenay-le-Vicomte, a Paris suburb; 16 days later, for fear that inquisitive French police might...
...Norman Barka and other archaeologists at William and Mary, the regular spaces offered convincing evidence of so-called "cruck" architecture, used in medieval England for construction of cottages and farm dwellings. Naturally curved timbers were split down the middle and placed opposite to each other-as in modern A-frame houses-to form the supports. If the Flowerdew remnants are in fact from a cruck building, they would be the first evidence that this construction technique was used by early Americans...