Word: melilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sunny Canary Islands, 72 miles off Africa's northwest coast, Spain has created a bustling tourists' paradise, complete with golf courses, luxury ho tels and fancy restaurants. Spain's three other territories - Ifni on the West Coast and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla on the Mediterranean - are little more than army bases; yet even there, Spain has taken pains to make friends with neigh boring Arabs, sometimes offering them jobs and free medical care...
Closed Cave. Born in the Riff mountains of northern Morocco, educated at a Spanish school in Melilla, a quiet employee of the Spanish Moroccan administration until he was 38, Krim became a rebel when the Spanish broke the peace with the Riff tibesmen by seizing the holy city of Xauen. In the subsequent fighting, Krim was captured and his father killed. Escaping from the Spanish prison in Melilla, Krim broke his leg and ever after walked with a pronounced limp. Gaining the safety of the mountains, he rallied the Riffs for a jihad against Spain...