Word: moroccans
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...Moroccan radio stations joyously broadcast the official palace communique: "His Majesty the King, may God glorify him, has just become the father of a girl, born in Rome." What raised eyebrows as well as hurrahs was that, until after the birth announcement, nobody had really been sure that Hassan, 33, was married...
...good deal of their inspiration, of course, must have come from Donald Soule's sets, which are so good as to merit mention before anything else. Soule's Moroccan garden and castle have a Mediterranean brilliance and intensity that make anyone on stage appear, inevitably, just a little more interesting than he could hope to be all by himself. It is a light which also shows off to good advantage Lewis Smith's handsome period costumes...
...Gates of Hell. Ben Bella began last week's days of crisis late Sunday evening with the announcement from his headquarters at Tlemcen, near the Moroccan border, that he had formed a seven-man politburo that would oust the "usurpers" of the provisional government (G.P.R.A.) from power and run the country until the formation of a constituent assembly. Premier Benkhedda was specifically excluded from the politburo, and only two members of his government (Ait Akhmed and Mohammed Boudiaf) were in; the rest were all Ben Bella men. Meanwhile, the military forces loyal to Ben Bella solidified control...
...relationship begun in those broiling hot Moroccan military posts was tempered and strengthened through the Spanish Civil War. At its outbreak, Munoz Grandes was arrested by the Republicans and sentenced to death, but was released in a routine exchange of prisoners. He quickly joined Franco, was soon commanding a corps on the Pyrenees front. At the end of the war, Munoz Grandes, at Franco's behest, became secretary-general of the Fascist Falange, specifically to integrate the freewheeling Falangist militia into the Spanish army...
...each other with everything but bullets. While moderate Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda tried to spread his influence from Algiers to the southeast, his bitter rival, radical Vice Premier ben Bella, entered western Algeria for a triumphal march to Oran. After a brief stop at Marnia, his birthplace near the Moroccan border, Ben Bella and his ever-lengthening motorcade drove on to the city of Tlemcen (pop. 80,000). Thousands of veiled women and turbaned men lined the streets, while hundreds of pigtailed little girls in the national colors-white dresses, red sashes, green kerchiefs-sang Kassaman, the national anthem...