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Ford spent Thursday night in a suite on the sixth floor of the Senator Hotel, a nine-story Moroccan-style building in downtown Sacramento. On Friday morning he addressed a breakfast gathering of 1,000 prominent citizens, winning solid applause by attacking excessive Government regulation for causing "cost, contradiction and confusion." He was obviously untroubled by a plea from liberal Republicans earlier in the week that he moderate his conservative line. After the breakfast meeting, Ford went back to the hotel and, right on schedule, left at 9:55 to walk a block to the California state capitol, where...
...whole area. The reason: threats by neighboring Arab states to liberate all or part of the sparsely populated (60,000 nomads), mineral-rich region. Pressure on Madrid intensified last month when ten Spanish soldiers based in the Sahara disappeared. Their fate remains unknown. It has also been reported that Moroccan troops fired on two Spanish helicopters. Another headache for Madrid is the Prolisario Front, an indigenous nomad independence movement thought to be backed by both Algeria and Libya; last week the Front captured 14 Arab members of the colony's territorial police...
...carpets and feasted on whole roast lamb, spiced rice and Arab delicacies. En route back to the U.S., the group conferred with President Boumedienne in Algiers' Palais du Peuple on development policies for the Third World, then flew over the Atlas Mountains to Rabat, where they talked with Moroccan government officials about their country's economy...
...anger of Bet She'an, and of all Israel, was mingled with shame and horror, particularly following the discovery that one of the four bodies burned was that of an Israeli victim of the raid, a Moroccan Jew who had immigrated to Israel a decade ago. At the graveside ceremony, Israel's chief rabbi, Shlomo Goren, declared with suppressed emotion that the desecration of bodies, even those of Israel's enemies, was prohibited by religious laws. Some clearly agree with Truck Driver Zada David Cohen, who said sadly, "Now everybody will think Israel is barbarian...
...tense situation was not helped when Moroccan authorities uncovered two plots, by a Black September group and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, to assassinate moderate leaders in Rabat. Among the intended victims: Egypt's Sadat, Jordan's King Hussein, Morocco's King Hassan and Saudi Arabia's King Faisal...