Word: marrakech
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...Northerner Ky is, having been born in Son Tay, just west of Hanoi. After high school in what is now the Communist capital, he earned an infantry commission from an officers' training school. The French plucked the cocky young lieutenant off his feet and sent him to Marrakech for flight training. He won his wings on Sept. 15, 1954-just four months after the French defeat in Indo-China. Ky came back to South Viet Nam with a French wife and the command of a transport squadron. By the time he was 25, the hard-boiled "hot rock" pilot...
...airplanes and a toy boat. Somewhat more sedately, Caroline opened presents described by a family friend as "girl's toys," plus a bright red fire engine from Lucy Baines Johnson. From King Hassan of Morocco, whom she visited in October, Jackie accepted a century-old stone house in Marrakech, complete with servants' quarters, stables, gardens. She drove to a family Mass at Joseph Kennedy's home, a mile and a half away, later exchanged more gifts. Earlier in the week there had come an inevitable reminder of her husband: his will, probated in Boston, divided an estate...
...return was swamped with gifts-a sterling silver tea set, gold encrusted tea glasses, a whole wardrobe of caftan robes and more. As she swirled through teeming market bazaars, surrounded by a phalanx of Moroccan police and U.S. Secret Service men, merchants were so charmed that they established a Marrakech precedent by giving her their wares-for free...
...charge that U.S. pilots had airlifted Moroccan troops to the border. Despite U.S. official denials, the accusation seemed at least partially accurate. Four days before the fighting broke put, pilots of the U.S. Air Force training mission in Morocco ferried troops in six C-119s and C-47s to Marrakech, 300 miles from the frontier. Belatedly realizing that a border war was in the making, the U.S. hastily ended the operation...
Dutifully, the rival North African brothers went through the motions of truce talks, but the Moroccans refused Algerian demands to withdraw from the outposts, and after six meetings in Marrakech the negotiations collapsed in anger. As the Algerians stormed home, a new battle reportedly erupted at Ich, 300 miles northeast of the original fighting, and Hassan charged that Ben Bella sought to convert the border struggle into a general war. Back in Algiers, Information Minister M'hammed Yazid blandly declared that a "dialogue is still possible." With that, he boarded a plane for New York, where he will...