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...their plan for complete integration of Algeria into France. They were alarmed by the report that, as a gesture to Morocco's King Mohammed V, De Gaulle was trying to find a graceful way to release Rebel Chieftain Mohammed ben Bella, whom the French had kidnaped off a Moroccan plane late in 1956 (TIME...
...Church. With a typically sardonic Moravian twist, it is Allied troops who finally break the two women's morale. Before the desecrated altar of a shattered church, Rosetta is raped by a squad of French Moroccan soldiers. Her traumatic reaction is to become indiscriminately promiscuous. Cesira, in turn, is reduced to robbing one of her daughter's slain paramours. At novel's end, only the profound Latin conviction that the first duty of life is to go on living keeps the two women sane as they travel the long road back to Rome...
...many months, there were signs that the breach might be narrowing. Flying in from foreign refuges as various as Damascus and Switzerland-and carefully avoiding flights that might make an emergency landing on French soil-top leaders of Algeria's rebel National Liberation Front converged on the Moroccan city of Rabat. There, surrounded by Moroccan plainclothesmen, they sat down with representatives of Morocco's dominant Istiqlal Party and Tunisia's Neo-Destour to lay the groundwork for a formal conference in Tangier this week. Prime topic to be discussed at Tangier: prospects for formation of a North...
...only chief of state to attend was Liberia's President William V.S. Tubman, who had taken over the entire fleet (two DC-3s) of the Liberian National Airways to airlift himself, his party and his 3,500 Ibs. of luggage (including a portable flagpole). By the time the Moroccan Foreign Minister arrived that night, Accra had a full house. It was a little disappointing that only one chief of state had shown, but with the exception of South Africa-which would not come unless colonial powers were invited-all of Africa's independent states, Arab and black, were...
...year-old Israel thinks it has found a few answers. Faced with a babel of tongues, and infinite degrees of sophistication between skilled Rumanian surgeons and ignorant Yemeni shepherds, Israeli officials were in trouble no matter what they did. If they put all Poles in one village and all Moroccan Jews in another, the newcomers failed either to learn Hebrew or to become part of the Israeli pattern; when they were mixed together in one village, there was perpetual conflict...