Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have all along, claimed they were winning. They say that there are only 7,600 F.L.N. regulars in Algeria today, compared with 16,000 two years ago. But they admit that some 18,000 rebels are in battle readiness across the Tunisian border, and another 8,000 encamped in Morocco...
...Khrushchev hurried to get back on the revolutionary bandwagon, told the Algerians that only power counts, and proposed a two-stage assistance program. The first would be shipment of non-military supplies-which, to avoid provoking a general conflict, would be landed at allegedly neutral ports in Tunisia and Morocco. Last week the Soviet freighter Fatezh arrived at Tunis with a cargo of machine tools, tractors, cars, clothes and food for the rebels. The second phase is scheduled to begin when the F.L.N. can take, and hold, a sliver of Algerian territory from the French. Then the Soviet Union will...
Troubled Friends. Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba and Morocco's King Mohammed V are men steeped in French culture, and longtime friends of the West. Both have tried to serve as peacemakers between the F.L.N. and France, and this month Bourguiba desperately sent his son to Paris to make a personal appeal to De Gaulle. Young Bourguiba's message was that France must make concessions or the F.L.N. would turn to the Communists, dragging Tunisia with it. Young Bourguiba was not even allowed to talk to De Gaulle, and his father angrily recalled him to Tunis. Last...
King Mohammed, who claims the rocky Mauritania desert south of Morocco as his own, was annoyed last week because France agreed to give Mauritania its independence. Mohammed promptly ordered the closing of two French consulates near the Algerian border. The announced reason was the recent French bombardment of two Moroccan villages. A more compelling, if unstated, reason was that these consular districts enabled the French to keep tabs on the movement of F.L.N. men and arms across the border...
...Mecca. In 1956 came Morocco's independence. Determined to propel his nation into the 20th century, King Mohammed slashed Karaouine's religious studies, introduced math, physics, chemistry and foreign languages. In 1957 he jolted traditionalists by setting up a female branch at Karaouine, where the enrollment (6,325) now includes 1,197 women. Soon will come another big revolution: 3,000 cramped boarders will move to airy dormitories on the new campus outside Fez, which will boast 70 modern classrooms and laboratories and such un heard of niceties as a laundry, athletic field, infirmary and dining halls...