Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue was one that France had been half avoiding for years, and it involved nothing less than the end of empire. The soldiers who forced the battle had bled and lost in Indo-China. had evacuated Tunisia and Morocco, blaming it all on the "politicians." They had toppled the Fourth Republic in May 1958 to install De Gaulle-who was now telling them only three years later that they had to give up Algeria, the last and bloodiest possession of all. But the soldiers, in their bitter years abroad, had lost all touch with the new sentiments of Metropolitan France...
Trans Wrorld Radio, as the mission is called, was forced to leave Tangier in 1959, when Morocco declared that it was about to incorporate the free port. Its new site in Roman Catholic Monaco, near the summer palace of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, has proved to be admirably suited for the operation. The location is nearer Europe's geographical center. Ready and available were broadcasting facilities installed by Adolf Hitler. Trans World rented the installation from Radio Monte Carlo with a ten-year lease, automatically renewable...
...Communist bloc," says Broadcaster Freed. To prepare the Russian broadcast-a daily half-hour from 7 to 7:30 p.m., which will soon be increased to an hour-Trans World has called on an American couple of Russian Orthodox origin, Nicholas and Rose Leonovich, who live in Morocco. Their typical program begins with folk music, gradually changing to church music-instrumental at first, then sung-followed by a Christian message...
Marshal Tito also pressed his foreign policy on everyone who would listen. To hear him tell it, the universal enemies are colonialism, the Belgians in the Congo, and Western imperialists in general, while Belgrade-style neutralism is Africa's only salvation. By the time he got up to Morocco, "the struggle of the Algerian people for freedom" was at the top of his list...
...love with the same shy young intellectual (Jean-Paul Belmondo), the son of a local tradesman. As the Germans retreat, they eagerly start back to Rome, but on the way they are captured and raped by what looks like a gang of goums, wild mountain fighters from French Morocco...