Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MOROCCO The Malady of Meknes Cripples, many of them children, stretched helpless legs last week in the bazaars of Meknes (pop. 200,000). In the city's 4O0-bed hospital, some 650 more Moroccans, with symptoms ranging from muscular atrophy of hands and feet to complete paralysis, lay crammed together in crowded quarters. In the Meknes slums, whole families hobbled about on canes. "There are 10,000 people paralyzed," cried Morocco's Health Minister Youssef...
...back from India, he will lunch with the Shah of Iran, cruise from Athens to Toulon in a U.S. Navy cruiser to store up sun and strength for the Western summit at Paris Dec. 19-21. Last stop: Rabat, to visit with Morocco's King Mohammed...
...Mapai Party. They had won new security for their country by the Sinai military campaign against Egypt exactly three years ago last week, and encouraged a new prosperity for their merchants by relaxing their stiffest controls. They had brought a flood of newcomers (and new social problems) from Morocco, Tunisia, Iraq, Iran. And they had convinced the young and the newly arrived of their party's forward look by running such attractive, vigorous new candidates as former Army Chief Moshe Dayan, 44, former Ambassador to Washington Abba Eban, 44, former Defense Planner Shimon Peres...
...Morocco-born Pesquet, an unstable and bizarre fellow, was hardly a man whose word was to be preferred to Mitterrand's, except for one fact: nine hours before the attack, he said, he had written a letter describing exactly what was going to happen, and had posted it to himself, care of general delivery. When police collected the letter from the post office, they found that it did indeed describe the attack correctly, even pinpointed the spot at which Mitterrand had abandoned his car after the shooting...
...President ever has attempted anything like this 19-day expedition to the capitals of Italy, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Iran, Greece, France and Morocco...