Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cordebas asserted, too, that Algeria is developing a left-wing elite trained under fire of the battle. She predicted that an independent Algerian government will be far to the left of the government of Tunisia and Morocco...
...terms. From the Tunisian Parliament he won unanimous approval for a blockade of the Bizerte naval base. For good measure, he put in his claim for a piece of the Sahara. Tunisia is a small country, with only 3.7 million people, compared with Algeria's ten million and Morocco's 11.6 million. But Bourguiba was anxious for his share, fearing that France might be getting ready to give the whole thing to the F.L.N. Said Bourguiba: "It is not possible for Tunisia to give up its rights over the Sahara, even if there were no oil at Edjele...
...last week resumed talks with the French at the Chateau de Lugrin, near Evian. In the five weeks since France broke off the talks, the F.L.N. has increased its prestige enormously and won new popularity among Algerian Moslems. Bourguiba, ambitious to lead a united Mahgreb of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, presumably felt the need to demonstrate to the F.L.N. and to the Arab world generally that he is no "imperialist lackey," but can be as anticolonialist and as pan-Arab as anyone. Furthermore, Bourguiba's earnest and devoted friendship seemed to have gotten him nowhere with France, while...
Last week Enrico Mattei proudly listed his accomplishments: "We're building seven refineries in Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana, Poland, Sicily, the Po Valley and Switzerland. We're building our own offshore drilling rigs. One is already in the Red Sea, two in the Persian Gulf, one will start soon in a gas field in the Adriatic. Just yesterday I returned from Rumania, where I sold $5,000,000 worth of equipment...
Engaged. Princess Lalla Aisha, 30, Morocco's great female emancipator (TIME cover, Nov. 11, 1957 ), sister of King Hassan II; and Hassan Al Yakoubi, 26, prosperous landowner; at the royal palace in Rabat, in a double ceremony that saw her sleek, similarly Westernized sister, Princess Lalla Malika, 23, betrothed to Mohammed Cherkaoui, 40, Morocco's ambassador-designate to France...