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...Algeria's Moslem rebels. Assembling in Tripoli in mid-December, the leaders of the rebellion reorganized their "government" by dropping four extremist "ministers" (known as "the men of Cairo" and "the men of Peking") and giving increased power to three ex-guerrilla commanders headed by tough, commonsensical Belkacem Krim (TIME, July 7, 1958). Since De Gaulle has long insisted that he will deal only with the military leaders of the revolt, the new rebel "Cabinet" seemed to smooth the path toward negotiations between France and the rebels. But before meeting with De Gaulle, the rebels had to have...
...signed covers from Vice President Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller. Among others in his autographed collection: Harry Truman and Thomas E. Dewey (both on the same 1948 pre-Election Day issue), John Foster Dulles, Chiang Kaishek, Toscanini, Nehru, the Duke of Windsor and the Morocco Riff leader, Abd el Krim...
...centuries, on the barren brown mountains that were once a part of Spanish Morocco, the Riffs have lived, a sturdy Berber breed whose way of life was war. Feuding and fighting among themselves, they were seldom united; but Abd el Krim in the 1920s managed to bring them together long enough to drive out the Spaniards. Only after Paris dispatched Marshal Henri-Philippe Pétain to lead 160,000 French troops against him was Abd el Krim defeated in 1926. Taken prisoner, he escaped to Cairo, where since 1947 he has continued to rant, first against the French...
...Will Act." Though Abd el Krim remains the symbol, the real leaders of the movement are a far cry from the traditional chiefs of oldtime feuding days, reported Karnow. They have neither telephone nor telegraph, but they keep in touch through an elaborate network of signal fires and scores of runners who can relay a letter from 250 miles away within two days. One typical leader is a Madrid-educated lawyer known only as Sadek, who has stumped the region, whipping up the tribesmen with fiery speeches from balcony and rooftop. The chief of the Riffs' "central region...
...dissatisfaction of the Istiqlal Party radicals in the cities. Last week the King made a small but significant act of conciliation. At a brief ceremony in the town of Alhucemas, 42 farms, confiscated by the Spaniards in 1928, were formally restored to the family of Abd el Krim. In broadcasting the news, the official Moroccan radio for the first time referred to the exiled rebel by his old honored title of emir (chieftain...