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...Casablanca's narrow Rue Dumont d'Urville one morning last week, a U.S. newsman walked through a police cordon to the offices of the daily Maroc-Presse (circ. 55,000), took a long look at its Broken windows and barricaded doors and said: "You've got to be a hero to work lere." For Maroc-Presse's 20 reporters and editors, courage is another requirement of the job; theirs is the most utterly hated newspaper in the world. Reporters are regularly beaten up, death threats come into the city desk almost daily. Editor Antoine Mazzella...
Colonialism Is Dead. The cause of the rouble is the crusade by Maroc-Presse or Moroccan autonomy. For two troubled years it has been telling fellow Frenchmen that colonialism is dead, that they must begin native self-government. To diehard French colonialists such an appeal amounts to treason, the betrayal of France to Moroccan nationalists...
...Casablanca, violence begets violence. Crowds of young Europeans stormed through the streets, smashing native shops, besieging the offices of the liberal French-owned newspaper Maroc-Presse, tearing down Moroccan flags. At midnight, a mob smashed into the apartment of Lawyer Jean-Charles Legrand, a French lawyer who has defended Moroccan terrorists in court. Legrand was waiting for them, revolver in hand. For an hour he held them off, killing one young attacker and wounding two others...
...that was needed, he argued, was "a little imagination, a lot of good will, a lot of love, great reciprocal confidence based on facts, not promises." Two months ago he bought control of Casa blanca's Maroc-Presse, a lonely newspaper voice reviled by French extremists for espousing such views. In France's festering protectorate, where Arab hatred swells with despair, and French fear breeds demands for brutal repression, the middle is a dangerous place...
Then came the bombs. The Maroc-Presse was a special target; the managing editor was threatened, the executive editor driven from Morocco by bombings and machine-gun attempts on himself and his family. The counterterrorists operated with the obvious sympathy of diehard colon organizations such as the Présence Française. When one suspected killer eluded police questioning, it was discovered later that he had driven off in a red sports car belonging to a prominent physician and Présence Française leader and had holed up for several weeks at the physician's estate...