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...July 21, 1973, in the Norwegian resort town of Lillehammer, members of an Israeli assassination squad shot and killed a Moroccan waiter thought to be the chief of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's Black September terrorists. The man was innocent, the Israeli agents were arrested. Perhaps the most serious consequence of the blunder was that the Mossad, the Israeli spy agency responsible for the killing, lost its reputation for reliability. When, a few days before the October War, the organization produced plans for the Arab attack, Israel's leaders were not convinced that the plans were genuine...
Unlike most fashions that women wear today, the romantic new Cossack-gypsy-Indian-Moroccan all-purpose paisana-princess image-the YSLook -is a deliberate assertion, a statement. It says, in the words of a Washington fashion setter who was in Paris last week, "Aren't I simply devastatingly dazzling!" It is not, at from $2,000 to $10,000 per outfit, for humble folks. Saint Laurent has used with theatrical abandon the old luxurious, tactile fabrics: satin, gold and silver lame, silk faille, velvet, taffeta, chiffon, chenille, mousseline and moire. The materials, fashioned into 106 outfits for Saint Laurent...
...colors. They were turbaned, feathered, booted, shawled, cinched, tasseled and encrusted from head to foot in braid, beads, rickrack and passementerie. The so-called Fantasy Look, which seemed more suitable for grand opera than for real life, was a melange of styles derived from the Russian, Gypsy, Cossack, Moroccan, Indian and Victorian...
...with Africans and West Indians. "Black and white Americans don't mix here or abroad," Jones says. "When a black community is there, blacks are drawn there. I felt a kinship towards them [the Africans and West Indians]. Our color bound us together." She would sometimes pose as a Moroccan, Arab or South American to avoid anti-American feelings from Prenchmen she would meet on the street...
...week's end Moroccan communiqués claimed the area had been "cleansed of all rebel elements." Algerian pride, still wounded by a Moroccan whipping in the 1963 border war, had been stung again. Should Boumedienne try to even the score, Algeria's army would be far from supply bases and pitted against a Moroccan force roughly its equal in size and skill. But Algeria's 3-to-1 advantage in air power could prove decisive in the Sahara's frigid, windswept wadies and salt flats, whose sparse vegetation creates ideal strafing ground...