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Maybe some European colons might mull over the news from Morocco next door. After dodging French naval patrols, the Communist freighter Bulgaria docked at the Moroccan harbor of Tangier, unloaded 3,400 tons of arms, including 14,000 rifles and automatic weapons, which were promptly shipped to the town of Oudjda near the Algerian border. Though the Moroccans last week insisted that the arms were for their own use, French intelligence agents believe the shipment was paid for by Red China. If so, it is the first tangible result of the recent visit of F.L.N. Chief Ferhat Abbas to Peking...
...independence this year. Tunisia quickly recognized it, but Morocco refused to, claiming Mauritania as a lost province willfully withheld from it by France. In October Morocco's fiery Deputy Premier, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, 31, flew to Tunis to convince President Habib Bourguiba that he should back the Moroccan claim to Mauritania. Recalls Bourguiba: "The crown prince went so far as to say, 'If ever you want to lay claim to Sicily, we Moroccans will support you.' Sicily! Why not Nice and Corsica? That young man will just have to grow...
...Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). This week's debate pits ex-Cabinet Minister Jacques Soustelle against the Moroccan Ambassador to the U.S., Dr. El-Mehdi Ben Aboud, on "What is the Solution to the Algerian Problem...
...this, however, failed to satisfy Moroccan Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, who, as boss of his nation's armed forces, decided that the 1960 parade would not be complete without some jets flying in close formation overhead. To fulfill his dream, the prince got a promise from Morocco's former French masters of twelve Mistral jet fighters to form the nucleus of a new Royal Moroccan Air Force. Last week, on the eve of the "three glorious days," the French welshed, irritated with Morocco's increasingly active support of the Algerian rebels...
Presumably, Moulay Hassan could have called on the U.S. for planes. But the Moroccan government was already in hot water with the country's left-wingers, who were howling that King Mohammed had let American military advisers infiltrate the Moroccan armed services. Accordingly, the prince called in Moscow's balloon-faced Dmitry Pozhidaev, who for weeks had been heavily hinting that Russia wants to aid Morocco "in all spheres." And on the day of the great parade, Moulay Hassan was able to unveil the next best thing to a new air force: a Russian promise to supply Morocco...