Word: mehdi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What had this to do with Robert Kennedy? Journalists quickly recalled that Kennedy, in his campaigning on the West Coast, had restated his position that the U.S. had a firm commitment to Israel's security. In New York, Arab Spokesman M. T. Mehdi talked darkly of the "frustration of many Arabs with American politicians who have sold the Arab people of Palestine to the Zionist Jewish voters." That suggested a motive, but District Attorney Evelle Younger and State Attorney General Thomas Lynch wanted to avoid any such discussion until the trial. Thus they were aghast, and said so, when Mayor...
...sooner had Moroccan Opposition Leader Mehdi ben Barka disappeared during a visit to Paris 20 months ago, than a rumor began to make the rounds that the American C.l.A. was behind the abduction. Even Charles de Gaulle allowed as to how that was probably the case. Then, to the French President's chagrin, it became clear that his own police, acting in cahoots with Moroccan officials and the Parisian underworld, had engineered the whole operation. "A vulgar and minor affair," said De Gaulle in airy dismissal...
...Moranda. Last December, Shemuel Mohr and Maxim Ghilan decided to try a little political sensationalism to boost the circulation (10,000) of their sex-oriented magazine, Bui. Under the headline "Stinking International Affair," they wrote that Israeli government officials were hushing up facts about the kidnaping of Moroccan Leftist Mehdi ben Barka in 1965. Not only were the French and Moroccan secret services involved in the plot, suggested Bui, but so was Israel...
...farming, dangerously close to famine-despite emergency U.S. Food for Peace shipments that last year totaled $33.6 million. An ambitious three-year development plan collapsed when the French cut off $100 million a year in aid, a move caused by Parisian petulance over the kidnaping of exiled Moroccan Leftist Mehdi ben Barka. And the Moroccans fear an invasion from leftist Algeria, with which they have been fighting a minor border war since...
...kidnaped Mehdi Ben Barka? It is almost exactly a year since the diminutive exiled Moroccan leftist leader vanished from a street in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. For the past several weeks the knotty mystery of his disappearance has been unraveling in a Paris court. All the evidence confirms the likelihood that he stepped willingly into a black Peugeot and was whisked to a villa in a Paris suburb because he believed that envoys of his old political enemy, Morocco's King Hassan II, were trying to contact him with an offer to return home for a reconciliation...