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...black, silver-sequined tent of a Moroccan chieftain sat a dark-haired beauty. And before her on a dusty plain, a multitude of bearded Berber tribes men played at war for her amusement. Outside the ancient, mud-walled city of Marrakech, the turbaned warriors wheeled and galloped, sending great swirls of dust toward the tent, fired their silver-banded muzzle-loaders into the air in thunderous explosions of good black powder...
...Russians, who in the past have usually threatened to use their veto in support of the Arabs, backed Moroccan amendments watering down the U.S.British resolution; the Moroccan version avoided condemnation of Syria and merely registered "regrets for the death of two persons...
Next day at dawn, Grimau, pale but composed, was led into the courtyard of Carabanchel Prison just outside Madrid. He walked alone to the wall, refused a blindfold, shouted "Viva el Comunismo!", and then collapsed under a volley of shots fired by Spanish Moroccan troops...
...only 800,000 people and an average per-capita income of less than $80 yearly. Nonetheless, since 1956 Morocco has been struggling to annex "the stolen sands of Mauritania," which it claims were illegally taken from colonial Morocco by French Army surveyors. Under the late King Mohammed V, a "Moroccan Liberation Army" even tried to "free" Mauritania; with support from Russia, Morocco managed to keep the new nation out of the U.N. for a whole year...
...former French colonies that backed Morocco's claims have all dropped out of the battle. Algeria's militant Ahmed Ben Bella allowed recently that Mauritania's nationhood is a "reality." Last week even neighboring Mali, which also claimed part of Mauritania and permitted pro-Moroccan guerrillas to raid the desert nation a year ago, finally buried the hatchet. With royalties beginning to flow into his treasury from big, Western-financed iron-ore mines, Ould Daddah cut off the $4,000,000 annual subsidy his government has been getting from France, thus effectively answering African taunts that...