Word: morocco
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...Spanish attempts to reclaim the territory. In 1969, Spanish Dictator General Francisco Franco cut land, sea and telephone links with the colony. His intention: literally to starve Gibraltar's inhabitants into agreeing to a reunion with Spain. But the Gibraltarians, determined to remain under British rule, turned to nearby Morocco for supplies...
...pink tie (David Angel) pulls a curtain to reveal three coffins, and welcomes a mob of cheering cast members to "Choose that Casket." Nerissa holds up an "Applause" sign. Here, the cast "deviates" from Shakespeare's script. After the emcee announces that the first contestant is the Prince of Morocco (Nestor Figueroa), he asks." Tell me about yourself--where are you from?" "Morocco" answers the Prince, while the other suitors howl "Go for the gold" in the background...
Over the past four months he had signed a treaty of friendship with Morocco and sought to improve relations with West Germany and France. But Libya's mercurial strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, has disappointed Western leaders who may have hoped that he had turned his hand from duplicity to diplomacy. Last week repercussions of his latest antics resounded around the world...
Secure behind a 750-mile-long desert wall of sand and rock, the armed forces of King Hassan II of Morocco have gained the upper hand in their almost nine-year struggle with the Marxist guerrillas of the Polisario Front for control of the 103,000-sq.-mi. Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony. Last week, however, Morocco suffered a major diplomatic defeat. During a four-day summit in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, a majority of the 50 states in the Organization of African Unity agreed for the first time to seat the Polisario Front as a full...
Under the agreement, which Morocco may have helped to broker, the French will remove some 3,000 men, 800 vehicles and 40 aircraft, which have been buttressing the government of President Hissène Habré; the Libyans will pull out their 5,000 men from northern Chad, where they have been backing the rebel forces of Habré's onetime ally and ousted predecessor, Goukouni Oueddei. Libya and France greeted with relief their anticipated departure from the costly stalemate. But the Chadians, mired in a seesaw 19-year-old civil war, were anything but jubilant. Stung...