Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Have Bananas. Most of the proposed customs unions lack the homogeneity of the European Six; often their members belong to different currency blocs and lack common boundaries. The members of the "Casablanca bloc" that met last week in Cairo-Egypt. Morocco, Algeria, Ghana, Guinea and Mali-found that transportation among them is so primitive that Ghana still finds it easier to import cotton from Europe than from Egypt. Hoping to change this, the Casablanca powers agreed to expand their shipping, create an airline cooperative, and start a joint payments union. But, like nearly all the little common markets, the Casablanca...
...average of European refugees has soared from 3,000 to 8,000. This month alone, an estimated one-fourth of the million Europeans in Algeria will leave for France. They are being replaced by a slow influx of Moslem refugees returning from years of exile in neighboring Tunisia and Morocco with only a few sheep and goats and the ragged clothes on their backs. Most will come home to partially or totally destroyed villages, to weed-grown, untilled fields, and to the frail shelter of army tents...
...Bella was put aboard an Air France Caravelle to Switzerland, where he was delivered into the hands of Morocco's African Affairs Minister, Dr. Abdelkrim Khatib. Then the U.S. entered the picture. Responding to a request by Morocco's King Hassan II, the State Department, "with President Kennedy's knowledge," passed the problem on to the Military Air Transport Service, which produced a Pan Am Boeing 707 jet available for charter...
Taking off from Geneva at midnight (and so rapidly that the F.L.N. leaders left their baggage behind), the Boeing flew at maximum altitude along a route (Milan, Barcelona, Madrid) that avoided all French territory and, four hours later, put down at the U.S. Air Force Base at Nouasseur, Morocco, where F.L.N. Pre mier Benyoussef Benkhedda and a clutch of Moroccan officials sipped Coca-Cola -courtesy of the base commander - while they waited...
...Morocco, Ben Bella's return meant the end of a humiliating international loss of face as well as "the end of the night mare of an atrocious war." For the F.L.N...