Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of French West Africa). "Every grain of the Sahara belongs to Morocco," cried bearded Si Allal el Fassi, chief of Morocco's dominant Istiqlal Party. Guerrillas of the old Moroccan Army of Liberation, no longer occupied with fighting the French, moved into the scrublands around the Ifni frontier. No sooner had the King departed for his visit to the U.S. than the irregulars assembled a motley force of some 1,200 townsmen and tribesmen and launched an attack on Ifni...
...local Moslems for demonstrating in favor of King Mohammed, had quietly reinforced the Ifni garrison with several hundred paratroopers and Foreign Legionnaires. Shouting their battle cry of "Long Live Death," the Legionnaires led a counterattack into the hills that drove most of the invaders back across the frontier and cost them an estimated 100 dead, 200 wounded. Announced Spanish casualties: 5 dead, 43 wounded...
...Moroccans managed to hang on to some of Ifni's border outposts. Spanish paratroops dropped from the skies to retake one, a heavy cruiser lobbed shells into others. Madrid ordered World War II Heinkels and Messerschmitts south from the mainland to bomb and strafe along the ill-defined frontier. Istiqlal partisans charged that the Spanish were striking roads and villages on the Moroccan side. In Rabat young (28) Crown Prince Moulay Hassan ordered Moroccan troops to shoot back at any plane attacking Moroccan territory, and indicated that Morocco would demand "our door to the Sahara"-that part...
...moved into a lavish, state-owned seaside villa in Carthage, told aides to take care of Tunisia's other problems, and turned his own attention to winning peace in Algeria. His immediate purpose is to get arms enough to stop French forces from chasing rebels across his Algerian frontier under the doctrine of "hot pursuit." To get them he has not hesitated to use Communist or Egyptian arms offers to underscore his independence of the French over the Algerian fight...