Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King moved 20,000 troops-two-thirds of Morocco's army-into the hills, under the command of his son Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, 29. He sent tanks and artillery against rebel roadblocks and used six rocket-firing Morane jet trainer planes against rebel holdouts...
...rumble of discontent in the bleak, brown Rif mountains of northern Morocco (TIME, Dec. 22) grew so loud that King Mohammed V and his politicians in Rabat could no longer ignore it. Last week gunshots, artillery fire and rocket explosions echoed through the Rif in the most serious challenge to the King's authority in the three years of Morocco's independence from France...
...siege around Alhucemas was relieved, the airfield recaptured, the road to Tetuán reopened. On a visit to Tetuán last week, new Leftist Premier Abdallah Ibrahim borrowed a phrase from France's famed pacifier of Morocco. Marshal Lyautey: "The government had to show force to avoid using...
Joanovici was reported seen in Germany, Switzerland, Egypt. But he turned up in Haifa, Israel, in a small group of Jewish refugees arriving by plane from Morocco. He gave his name as Joseph Levy. "All ten of the passengers on the plane had passports in the name of Joseph Levy," he adds with a grin...
...eight-year stretch. Since independence, backed by the powerful (600,000 members) Union Marocaine du Travail, the nation's only trade union, Ibrahim has ranted against foreigners, talked of nationalizing foreign interests and demanded the ouster of U.S., French and Spanish troops from their bases in Morocco. "Independence is not liberty," he declared recently. "Our economy remains in the hands of others, our vital installations are at the disposition of foreigners, our social standards fall daily while foreign troops continue to occupy the country...