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...cursed the government, burned police stations and sacked shops. Police and troops hit back in panic with machine guns and rifles, cracking skulls with clubs the size of baseball bats. In the rebellious cities, at least 100 rioters died; 844 more were arrested and given speedy prison sentences. Fourteen Moroccan leftists sentenced to death last year for fomenting revolution were hastily sent to the wall. The firing squad's aim: dissuading the rioters from further action. It seemed to work. Last week an unsteady truce hung over the country as King Hassan tried to figure out what had happened...
Aggressive Thrust. Skandinaviska had to build in a hurry to keep up with its growth in Sweden and around the world. The bank handles one-third of Sweden's currency exchange and finances one-half of its exports. Thrusting aggressively overseas, it has bought an interest in a Moroccan bank, recently acquired control of a bank in Geneva and joined the Bahamas-based World Banking Corp. to gain a toehold in Latin America. It backed construction of a $30 million paper plant in Portugal, and this year became the first Swedish bank since World War II to underwrite...
...story was that he was a Moroccan named Josef Dahan who had come to Rome from Naples to meet the two Egyptians at the Cafe de Paris on the opulent Via Veneto. He had apparently been slipped a doped drink and then hustled by car to the Egyptian Embassy, where he was kept under heavy sedation and finally packed. He was supposed to stay unconscious until he was well on the way to Cairo, but the plane was late...
Meanwhile, onionskins of identity were being peeled from the captive. He proved to be Mordecai Luk, 31, a Moroccan-born Jew who had immigrated to Israel in 1949, did his army service, married and fathered four children, and took up two professions: carpentry and crime. He has a record of five convictions, on charges ranging from forgery to criminal trespass. In 1961 he slipped out of Israel to Egypt and began an equally unsavory new existence making anti-Israel broadcasts over Radio Cairo...
Pescado & Chips. Gibraltar's original inhabitants all fled when the British first landed. Most of today's "Rock scorpions," as Gibraltar's 24,000 natives proudly call themselves, are not of Spanish ancestry but are descended from the Jewish, Maltese, Genoese and Moroccan immigrants whom the British encouraged to settle there. A tough, cocky breed, the citizens of Britain's only European crown colony speak breakneck English and a kind of cockney Spanish, follow British soccer as avidly as the bullfights, and pride themselves on their stiff upper lips, the view from their...