Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truce talks got under way at the presidential palace in Bamako, Mali, to settle the border war between Morocco and Algeria, a flock of vultures hovered overhead. As if to counteract such ominous signs, Malian witch doctors with grotesque ritual masks came from miles through the bush. There was plenty of work for them...
...finally started, Mali's President Modibo Keita and Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, host and mediator, tried to keep the Algerian and Moroccan delegations apart. The emissaries even ate in separate dining rooms, with Keita and Selassie shuttling back and forth. Finally, after one face-to-face meeting between Morocco's King Hassan II and Ben Bella, a compromise cease-fire agreement was reached-but it was full of loopholes and did not last long...
...broke out all over again. In Rabat, where Hassan was greeted like a conquering hero by 1,000 warriors on horseback, the Moroccan government broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba and recalled its ambassadors to Egypt and Syria because of their "extremely hostile attitude." Some 350 Egyptian teachers in Morocco were told to pack up and return home. In Algiers the mood was equally ugly. Although both sides had agreed to end their exchange of virulent propaganda, Ben Bella warned Hassan in a two-hour harangue that the struggle would continue between his type of socialism, which he evidently hopes...
Just as inconclusive was the unrelenting propaganda barrage between Morocco's King Hassan, a tough ex-playboy, and militant Socialist Ben Bella, which by last week blossomed into a full-scale ideological struggle, with Ben Bella backed by Egypt's Nasser and a host of black African nations. Dramatizing its case against Morocco's supposedly "feudal" and "imperialist" regime, Algeria broadcast a parody of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, with Hassan in the title role and a supporting cast of Uncle Sam, King Farouk and David Ben-Gurion...
...played it cool. Ben Bella, Hassan remarked, "should take great care. He is in the process of introducing into North Africa a virus from which God has so far protected us: lies, psychological warfare, and insults." Face it, said Hassan to his foe: "Whether you like it or not, Morocco will have the regime it has chosen. Make the best of a bad deal and coexist with this monarchy that you abhor...