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...gray afternoon of Oct. 29, 1965, Mehdi Ben Barka-a self-exiled left-wing Moroccan politician and a well-known critic of King Hassan II -was stopped outside the Brasserie Lipp on Paris's Boulevard St. Germain by two French agents. "You have a rendezvous with some politicians," said one of them. Ben Barka, 45, who was accustomed to being tailed by the police, climbed into the back of an unmarked Peugeot 403. The car drove off. Ben Barka has not been seen in public since...
...native of Rabat and the son of a grocer, Mehdi Ben Barka had been active in politics from the age of 14, when he joined a Moroccan independence movement. For a time he was a tutor to Hassan, then the country's Crown Prince. After Morocco gained its independence, Ben Barka's friendship with Hassan turned sour as he moved leftward in his politics and eventually headed Morocco's political opposition. In 1963, he was elected president of the National Consultative Assembly. Ben Barka later fled into exile in Algeria, and was condemned to death in absentia...
...Mehdi said the Hoffmann plan was "a step forward in the area," and a Cairo English language newspaper reprinted part of the Foreign Affairs article, "without distortion" according to Hoffmann. In the United States, the plan has been heralded and reprinted on The New York Times oped page, and praised in Time magazine. Indeed the influence of such a plan on policy makers in Washington cannot be overestimated. Which perhaps explains why the official Israeli response, as articulated by the embassy in Washington is that the plan is "totally unworkable and fails to take into account the causes of previous...
...Mehdi, head of a the American-Arab Action Committee, a New-York-based PLO support-organization, told the demonstrators. "We are opposed to the existence of a Jewish state in Palestine, just as we are opposed to any non-secular state in that area...
...loyal supporter, as a chronic plotter of palace intrigue. Earlier, Hassan had claimed bitterly that he had protected Oufkir "beyond all reasonable bounds," and had even "endangered our relations with France" when he refused to extradite Oufkir for the Paris kidnaping and presumed murder in 1965 of Moroccan Leftist Mehdi Ben Barka...