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...small cement fortress near the Moroccan border were Moslem riflemen in French uniform, professionals and veterans who had fought for France in Europe and Indo-China. Only the officer in command and a scattering of other ranks were French. Among the 80 Moslems was Corporal Cheraf Abd el Krim, who in Indo-China had been captured by the Communist Viet Minh and then released...
...Corporal Abd el Krim disappeared. Before dawn one morning last week, he reappeared, creeping up to the fortress' outer wall with 150 fellagha guerrillas leading mules...
...duty let him and a handful of the rebels into the courtyard. A Moslem sergeant and corporal emerged stealthily from one of the huts and greeted him. Each set up a machine gun and trained it on the door of the hut where the Europeans lay sleeping. Abd el Krim stole into another hut, shot the French commander and his top sergeant dead in their beds. Wakened by the noise, the other soldiers jumped up, grabbed their rifles. The two Moslem noncoms mowed them down in the doorway. Before relief could arrive, the rebels withdrew, their mules loaded with...
...companies. United Artists was formed in 1919 to distribute the independent films of its four owners: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, D. W. Griffith. In early 1951 the company was losing $100,000 a week. It was so desperate that it offered a group headed by Lawyers Arthur Krim and Robert Benjamin half the company's stock, valued at $5,400,000 and full control for ten years at the nominal cost of $8,000, if the group could show a profit in any of the next three years. Within months United Artists was in the black...
...Krim, as quoted by Author John Gunther...