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Died. Allal el Fassi, 65, Moroccan nationalist leader; of a heart attack; in Bucharest, Rumania. As founder and president of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party, Fassi led the movement that in 1956 freed Morocco from French rule. He urged the annexation of Mauritania and other adjacent lands into a greater Moroccan empire and long served as a respected conservative voice in his country's politics...
Police said that the arrest of four persons suspected of arms smuggling, including an American girl, Allison Thompson, 18, of Santa Barbara, Calif., was unrelated to the Sieff case. Speculation by police was that the group was connected to a plot to kill or kidnap the Moroccan ambassador in London. Police said that they recovered five automatic pistols and 150 rounds of ammunition from Miss Thompson after she landed at London's Heathrow Airport on a flight from Los Angeles...
Grisly Bluff. Somehow, 40 passengers and crewmen managed to escape, mainly through emergency exits over the wings. Many suffered burns, including one passenger who died later. But 29 more were trapped inside, including all eleven passengers in the first-class section. Among the dead: four Moroccan officials, 14 relatives of employees of the Arabian-American Oil Co. who were flying to Saudi Arabia for Christmas, and Mrs. Bonnie Erbeck, wife of the plane's captain, who often accompanied her husband on his trips...
...When the Moroccan government, which lost four high officials in the Rome massacre, asked the Kuwaitis to treat the prisoners "without pity or mercy," the Kuwait government promised to inflict "severe punishment." By week's end it announced that it might be willing to turn the murderers over to the Palestine Liberation Organization for "trial" -thereby letting Kuwait off the hook...
...obliged to undertake an apparently unfamiliar diplomatic chore: inspecting an honor guard. He trudged down the line too quickly, hardly looking at it, much less inspecting it. When the commander of the guard finally caught up with him, Kissinger thrust out his hand, only to discover that the Moroccan commander had a sword in his right hand. After an awkward shift of the sword, they finally clasped hands. Said one onlooker who was traveling with Kissinger: "Certainly the first chapter of this trip must be titled 'Henry amongst the Berbers...