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...hesitant support, the M.R.P. got four choice Cabinet posts, including Robert Schuman as Minister of Justice and Pierre Pflimlin, a political comer, as Minister of Finance. Faure pledged his government to carry through Mendès' proposed home rule for Tunisia, but appointed as Minister for Tunisian and Moroccan Affairs a dissident Gaullist who strongly opposes it. All of these appointments indicated an attempt to strike an "exact middle," which might in practice turn out to be a dead center...
Terror is no stranger to Morocco these days. Last year Moroccan terrorists killed some 200 people and wounded 500 more...
...terrorism aimed at the natives. Often the activities of the "counter-terrorists," as they call themselves, are conducted with the tacit complicity of local cops, who have little patience with the slow-moving machinery of French justice. "What?" bellowed one indignant Casablanca policeman recently. "Arrest Frenchmen for killing these Moroccan pigs? They ought to be given the Legion of Honor." Seeing Nothing. Morocco's French-colonial vigilantes are largely concentrated in three small, tightly knit undercover groups: the White Hand, Agir (to act), and the more formally titled Organisation de Défense Anti-Terroriste. They meet in favorite...
With Albert gone, the officials had lost their best lead, but there are still many secondary sources to follow, though they are made difficult by the conspiracy of silence. In a bistro in Casablanca, three late-staying Moroccans asked for another round of drinks. "Go on, give it to them," the proprietor told his wife. "It's the last drink they'll ever have." Riding home in their car a few minutes later, the Moroccans were shot down by a blast of machine-gun bullets. Names like that of the bistro's proprietor are often spoken...
...decided on one more attempt to settle Tunisia's growing unrest by peaceful means. Tunisian Premier Tahar ben Amar was summoned to a delicate conference in Paris. Ben Amar could not give much ground, or he would be scorned and disowned by hotheaded compatriots. Mendes' Minister for Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs, a Gaullist named Christian Fouchet, was under heavy pressure by his fellow Gaullists to show an iron hand in North Africa. Thus, with neither man left much room for maneuvering, Fouchet and Ben Amar dickered for days, trying to find some way to end the months-long...