Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INCLINED TOWARD PEKING but split, the parties of Burma, Indonesia, Malaya, Morocco, Thailand...
...Lebanon. Syria. Indo-China, Madagascar, Tunisia, Morocco, Suez. Algeria ?and has either lost each war or felt cheated of complete victory. With a long record of involvement in politics, the French army played a part in the overthrow of each of the republics preceding De Gaulle's Fifth?except for the Third, which was destroyed not by the French but by Hitler's army...
...Much for the Passport. Delgado got out of Portugal soon after he polled an uncomfortably large 23% of the vote against Premier Salazar's hand-picked candidate for President in the 1958 election. Impatient for action and convinced that "the only solution is bullets," he flew to Morocco last October to hatch a rebel lion against the durable Dr. Salazar. Delgado-made 18 futile attempts to sneak into Portugal, finally decided he needed a passport, a readily available item in wide-open Casablanca. The Colombian, French, Italian and U.S. passports offered to him by dealers were too expensive...
...they suspected that he had made a deal with the rebel Moslem F.L.N. to exploit Saharan oil once France pulls out of Algeria. Last week, at Rome's Urbe airport, mechanics warmed up Mattei's sleek, twin-jet executive plane to carry him on a flight to Morocco to dedicate a new oil refinery at Mohammedia, where the top leadership of the F.L.N. was meeting. Hearing a peculiar noise in one of the French-built jet engines, the mechanics found that a heavy, twisted screwdriver had been taped to the inside. The screwdriver was meant to loosen...
...Moslem F.L.N. rebels had airily dismissed the S.A.O. as no concern of theirs-it was. they said, simply an affair between Frenchmen. But with the mounting murders, this attitude changed last week. Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda, Vice Premier Belkacem Krim, and the rest of the F.L.N. cabinet met in Morocco, then issued an official communiqué bluntly declaring war on the S.A.O. and warning that S.A.O. activities could "jeopardize" the interests of the European minority in Algeria...