Word: casablanca
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...Home Front. It was startling talk and clearly followed the line toward moderation taken by Egypt's Nasser in recent months. Nasser eschews talk of war, whether against Israel or the Yemeni royalists. At the Arab summit in Casablanca last September, he counseled fellow delegates to concentrate on setting their own houses in order, and showed the way by replacing left-leaning Premier Ali Sabry's government with a new, efficiency-minded one headed by Zakaria Mohieddin...
...wing conspiracy not only against the leftists but against Hassan as well. At week's end the Union Marocaine du Travail called a one-day strike in protest against the government's refusal to pursue a full investigation. The King called out troops in both Rabat and Casablanca to keep the strike from turning into full-blown riots...
...were they? Lopez didn't stay around to find out. Boucheseiche, whom police promptly identified as a notorious French gangster with connections in Morocco, was no help either; he had flown off to Casablanca a few days earlier...
Razzak had held the premiership only 18 days. Formerly a brigadier and commander of the air force, Razzak was appointed to form a new Cabinet on Sept. 6, the eve of President Abdul Salam Aref's departure for the Arab League conference at Casablanca. With the President out of the country, Razzak decided to make Aref's absence permanent. Backed by his newly chosen Cabinet, which was as strongly pro-Nasser as himself, Razzak ordered a tank column from the Abi Gharib camp, outside Baghdad, to occupy Iraq's radio station and broadcast "communique No. 1," announcing...
...plane and flown to Cairo where, after spending a night in Nasser's Tahra Palace, they moved into a luxury suite on the 19th floor of the Nile Hilton, next door to the suite of U.S. Film Star Charlton Heston and his family. On his way home from Casablanca, President Aref also stopped off in Cairo, perhaps to impress on Nasser the need for making haste slowly in ar ranging the eventual union of their two nations...