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...also given asylum to Colonel Abdullah el Tel, onetime Arab Legion commander in Jerusalem, who fled Jordan to escape imprisonment for complicity in the assassination of King Abdullah. He busies himself with the "Free Officers" Club of dissident Arab Legion officers in Cairo. Abd el Krim, the old Berber warrior who once kept 20,000 French troops on the run, is maintained as a decorative figurehead, was trotted out last week to urge all North African rebels to scorn France's "honeyed promises...
Died. Hadj Thami el Mezouari el Glaoui, eightyish, wily Pasha of Marrakech; of cancer; in Marrakech, Morocco. Berber Chieftain El Glaoui was named Pasha in 1908 for helping depose his first Sultan, rode to immense wealth (estimated at $50 million) from tithes on almond, saffron and olive harvests, profits from stocks in French-run mines, rebates on imported cars and machinery, reputed revenue from 6,000 prostitutes. His power rested on 30,000 tribesmen whom he used to enforce French colonial policies. In 1953 El Glaoui, an astute sniffer of political winds, aided the French in selling out the legitimate...
...Viet Minh Communists at Dienbienphu last year was a veteran warrant officer named Mohammed el Khabouchi. By the time the Communists let him go, they had taught him to hate his French masters. Last week French officials identified 36-year-old El Khabouchi as the commander of a thousand Berber rebels lurking in Morocco's Rif Mountains. He hides out in the Spanish Moroccan hamlet of Talamrhecht, and on occasion sneaks across the border to shoot up his old home town of Tizi Ouzli, or to ambush passing convoys. El Khabouchi's Berbers and other rebel bands...
...Morocco's restive land. The Sultan could not trust some 400 pashas and caids (local administrators) who had endorsed his banishment by the French. They, in turn, fearing reprisals from the Sultan's friends, dared not assert their authority or exact their usual tithes from restless Berber tribes. The new French Resident General, Andre Louis Dubois, had turned over much of the police power to Moroccans, concentrating his 100,000 troops in the openly rebellious regions of the North. Neither 20,000 Moroccan militiamen nor the private guard forces of nationalist political parties were enough to keep order...
...door was flung wide. Shrouded in white djellaba and hood, El Glaoui shucked off his pointed slippers and advanced. The imperial chamberlain put a firm hand on El Glaoui's neck, sent him to the floor. The once-powerful pasha, who boasted that his 300,000 musket-toting Berber tribesmen made "cowards tremble and gave hope to the weak," groveled across the floor to kiss the feet of the Sultan...