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...gray afternoon of Oct. 29, 1965, Mehdi Ben Barka-a self-exiled left-wing Moroccan politician and a well-known critic of King Hassan II -was stopped outside the Brasserie Lipp on Paris's Boulevard St. Germain by two French agents. "You have a rendezvous with some politicians," said one of them. Ben Barka, 45, who was accustomed to being tailed by the police, climbed into the back of an unmarked Peugeot 403. The car drove off. Ben Barka has not been seen in public since...
TIME has learned that Ben Barka was indeed killed by three high Moroccan officials in an act of loyalty to King Hassan; one of them was former Interior Minister Mohammed Oufkir, who died in 1972; the other two were Moroccan agents, one of whom still holds an important position in the Rabat government; the other is reportedly still a Moroccan intelligence official. According to one of TIME'S sources, Ben Barka's body was interred in the garden of a villa at Fontenay-le-Vicomte, a Paris suburb; 16 days later, for fear that inquisitive French police might...
...Hassan said that he did not talk about Zionism with anyone, and Nadav Safran, professor of Government and a guest who has written on Israeli security problems, said, "I walked away with the feeling that if there were three or four people like him running things in the Middle East, there would be no problem there...
Zionism has not fulfilled its initial purpose of 50 years ago, Hassan said, of bringing "know-how" to the area...
...Hassan added with a smile, "you can buy know-how anywhere...