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...clock one morning last week a military airplane from Algiers quietly set down on Corsica, the small Mediterranean island from which Napoleon Bonaparte sallied forth to win an emperor's crown. Out of the plane stepped Corsican-born Pascal Arrighi, a French National Assembly Deputy and passionate adherent of the two-week-old Algerian insurrection. Barely 13 hours later, 36-year-old Pascal Arrighi, at the head of 250 Corsica-based paratroopers and a mob of 10,000, seized control of the island capital of Ajaccio. From the balcony of the Ajaccio Prefectural Headquarters a local contractor announced, amid...
Political Life. After World War II. as more and more of Morocco's independence leaders succeeded in shaking the French applecart, Mohammed became increasingly dangerous to French influence, was summarily exiled in 1953 to Corsica, then Madagascar (along with his wives, five children). After rebellion flared in Morocco, the French were forced to bring him back in 1955, to the song of triumph from his own people. Thereupon he set out on a program toward constitutional monarchy. Though still autocratic in his ways, he has inspired modernization of his people and the country, remained devoted to the West...
Shame & Triumph. Aisha hated her two years in exile (in Corsica, and later, Madagascar). But while she was away, her star waxed ever brighter in the Moroccan firmament. Moroccan women pinned pictures of the Sultan and Aisha on their walls, slipped back and forth between French and Moroccan lines smuggling arms and revolutionary tracts beneath their flowing djellabahs. Thirteen-year-old girls signed up in clandestine cells of the Istiqlal Party. And in a Moroccan version of Lysistrata, thousands of Moroccan women denied themselves to their husbands for two years for fear of bringing into the world children born under...
...back-country chiefs signed up, until El Glaoui had the signatures of 311 of Morocco's 323 caids. In a matter of days a crestfallen Sidi Mohammed was bundled onto a plane with his two wives, five children, and assorted veiled ladies of the court for exile in Corsica. El Glaoui briskly produced his replacement as Sultan-goateed Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, a timid cousin of Sidi Mohammed...
...Boulogne Station in their special blue and silver armor-plated train, all known anti-Titoist refugees in Paris were placed under surveillance. The most ardent of them were rounded up, along with a motley crew of anarchists, royalists, diehard Yugoslav Catholics and Cominform Communists, and shipped off to Corsica for a week's vacation-food, wine and sightseeing-at France's expense. A small army of about 15,000 police, plainclothesmen, helmeted Gardes Republicaines and firemen were deployed over Paris to help keep the peace. Along the route of march from the railroad station to the Elysee Palace...