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Morocco's King Hassan...
...Freedom Fighter. A flight of Philippine F-5s snapped into escort positions around Air Force One when President Johnson took off on the Manila-to-Bangkok leg of his Southeast Asian trip. Belgium and The Netherlands are about to order the planes. This month Morocco's King Hassan, anxious to retire his aging Russian-built MIG-17s, will take delivery of a dozen...
...seven were part of an anti-Nasser opposition that had flared up in Yemen last month after Sallal replaced Premier Hassan Amri. Shortly after Amri's ouster, a mysterious bazooka emplacement shelled Sallal's palace in San'a. Before long, terrorists were potshotting at an Egyptian army camp outside the capital and setting fire to Egyptian installations, killing a reported 70 Egyptian troops. Sallal's troops then swooped down on some 140 suspects, including Mohamed Ruwainy, Sallal's ex-Minister for Tribal Affairs, and Colonel Hadi Issa, former deputy chief of staff of Sallal...
Moroccan Intervention. At last, Hassan himself decided to intervene, and he chose an ingenious way to do it. Last week Dlimi, his secret-police aide, boarded a Royal Air Maroc Caravelle in Casablanca and flew-suitably disguised and with a fake passport-to Paris. The next afternoon, just as the trial of the six defendants was drawing to a close, Dlimi calmly showed up at the court and surrendered to French authorities...
...Treatment. Nor was there any assurance that Dlimi himself would ever face a French judge. No sooner had he surrendered than a bevy of Hassan's hand-picked lawyers arrived in Paris to file a motion with France's Supreme Court invoking the Franco-Moroccan judicial convention of 1956. Under that agreement, French and Moroccan nationals must be tried in their national courts for offenses committed in the other country. It would also be months before the French court could rule on that motion. In the meantime, Dlimi was comfortably ensconced in a VIP cell at Paris...