Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus it was that France last week found itself reeling under a scandal bridging two continents and of proportions not felt since the Dreyfus Affair at the turn of the century. It has strained ties between Paris and its onetime protectorate, Morocco, exposed France's security forces to charges of either dark collusion or woeful ineptitude, and forced an angry Charles de Gaulle to admit to the world that the much-vaunted probity of his Fifth Republic is badly tarnished...
...afterward, as the cast applauded her backstage, Jackie smiled: "Oh, Alan, I haven't seen anything I loved that much in years." Lerner hadn't gotten that big a rave in the seven weeks since the show opened, so he took the lady over to El Morocco and bought her a glass of champagne...
...twelve-piece band were soon booked for $3,000 a week in the St. Regis Hotel's Maisonette. Almost immediately, the nightclub's business quadrupled. Peter stayed on for three years, and the Maisonette was the only cheek-to-cheek dance spot in New York, besides El Morocco, to prosper in spite of the discotheques...
...ambassador from Rabat to carry back to Hassan a personal message of his concern over the violation of French sovereignty. The implication was clear enough: Oufkir should be fired. From his palace in Fez, the King released a statement denouncing the French police charges as a plot to disgrace Morocco, and expressing his confidence in his ministers-a sign that he was not about to buckle under to French demands. With that, Hassan canceled a trip to Paris, where he was to have met De Gaulle last week. The French retaliated by canceling the visit of Agriculture Minister Edgard Pisani...
...Morocco's leftists, the French charges seemed to confirm the suspicions that they had felt all along-that Ben Barka had fallen prey to a right-wing conspiracy not only against the leftists but against Hassan as well. At week's end the Union Marocaine du Travail called a one-day strike in protest against the government's refusal to pursue a full investigation. The King called out troops in both Rabat and Casablanca to keep the strike from turning into full-blown riots...