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...last time a President of France visited Djibouti, in 1966, the city erupted in anti-French riots. Though an Issa-led independence movement has weakened since then, French authorities imposed stringent security measures for Pompidou's call. Some 240 riot-control experts were flown in from France to bolster the regular military force of 5,000, which includes one of the two remaining units of the French Foreign Legion stationed abroad. (The other is in Madagascar.) A French frigate stood guard in Djibouti Harbor...
Fiery Mangled Metal. The gunmen carried leaflets from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Arab guerrilla outfit that hijacked an El Al airliner last July. In Beirut, P.F.L.P. immediately distributed a triumphant communique identifying the terrorists as Mahmoud Mohammed Issa, 25, and Maher Hussein Yamani, 19. They now face possible death sentences in the Greek courts...
...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's armed forces. Sallal's government accused Ruwainy and Issa of organizing a "subversive network seeking to plunge the country into terrorism and panic" and planning a campaign of assassination-financed by Saudi Arabia, Britain, Israel and the U.S. After...
...State Department released a list of 58 Communist agitators, many of them graduates of Red Chinese and Czechoslovakian political warfare schools, who were leading the street fighting. Some of the leaders: Jaime Durán, a Cuban-trained member of the Dominican Young Communists' Party; José D. Issa, a Communist who received guerrilla training in Cuba, visited Prague in 1963, Moscow in 1964; Fidelio Despradel Roques, a Peking-lining Communist...
...Jomo Kenyatta presided over a meeting of his neighbors. On one side sat Uganda's Prime Minister Milton Apollo Obote, grinning cheerfully be neath his toothbrush mustache; on the other, Tanganyika's high-spirited President Julius Nyerere. Present as an observer: Somalia's Foreign Minister Abdullahi Issa. From three hours of talk emerged the decision to work for a federation of Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar, with Somalia, Rwanda and Burundi also invited...