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Nine months ago Algeria's rebels set out to destroy this iron limb of French imperialism. Basing themselves in newly independent Morocco-at some points the Colomb-Béchar line runs within a mile and a half of Moroccan territory -the guerrillas slipped into Algeria by night, laying mines, blowing up bridges and ripping up track. By last week they had blown up all of the line's 116 permanent bridges, destroyed 40 freight cars and six electric engines...
...under which Algeria would win political independence but France would keep some form of economic "interdependence." He urged the Senate to pass a double-barreled resolution calling upon the Administration to try to bring about an independence-with-interdependence settlement through NATO or the "good offices" of Tunisian and Moroccan leaders, and, if there is no substantial progress toward the goal by the time the U.N. General Assembly meets next September, to support "an international effort" toward the goal of Algerian independence...
...great fears exercising French settlers in North Africa is that the status of the schools in the independent states will not be recognized in France, thus depriving their children of the right to enter French universities or the French civil service. The new convention not only recognizes Moroccan schools, but gives schoolteachers increased salaries and special privileges. Morocco has also made similar tempting offers to 20,000 French technicians and officials...
Fortnight ago, five Glaoui sons gathered at Marrakech to divvy up the sprawling wealth El Glaoui had left. Reportedly there was $17 million in cash lying around the old mud-red palace. There were palaces and houses in virtually every major Moroccan city, stock in lead, cobalt and manganese mines, bank accounts in Paris, London and Geneva. The rumor spread that El Glaoui's sons were maneuvering to block a plan sponsored by Morocco's new government to redistribute the huge land holdings El Glaoui had amassed in southern Morocco...
...conference was a success; some 150 students from 18 European, Asian and African countries attended the lectures and discussions, and as many as 1,000 spectators crowded into the priory on weekends. A visiting Catholic bishop sat on the floor and ate mutton from a common bowl with the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and a Moslem scholar, listened with a Jewish dignitary while tribesmen beat out Arab rhythms on goatskin tam-tams. "We saw that people living together for three weeks were quickly becoming friends," said Father Martin. "We learned how freely a Moslem and Christian can discuss their...