Word: casablanca
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...Casablanca, French Morocco
Late that night, Lemaigre left the luxurious Casablanca apartment house where he lives, intending to drive out to the airport for a night flight to Rabat on business. As he and a friend were about to enter their car, two black Citroëns crossed the deserted plaza and slowed down. There were two bursts of machine-gun fire. Lemaigre, with 13 slugs in his body, dropped to the pavement, mortally wounded. The 9-mm. bullets were of the type used by Casablanca police...
...Lemaigre's widow, then summoned Pierre July. Minister for Tunisia and Morocco, for urgent consultation. Emerging from this meeting, July declared bluntly: "Counter-terrorism . . . once again has dishonored France." He sent France's No. 1 cop, Roger Wybot, to investigate the murder and reorganize Casablanca's police force...
...Faure government steeled itself to act against the suspects, some of whom were reputedly lodged in embarrassingly high places. As a start, special detectives sent from Paris arrested a man long suspected of organizing counter-terrorism- one time Chief Police Inspector Jean Delrieu, once head of the Casablanca police unit charged with combatting Arab terrorism...
...Franklin Roosevelt was the first President to take to the air. In 1943 the Secret Service decided that the menace of German submarines was too great for a transatlantic voyage, permitted him to fly from Miami to Casablanca...