Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...negotiations between the French and the F.L.N. continued, and there seemed to be some progress toward a settlement. In Paris, President Charles de Gaulle told a visitor at the Elysée Palace: "We'll see results shortly." From his Tunisian headquarters, F.L.N. Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda flew to Morocco, where he was hailed by a crowd of 50,000 and received the 21-gun salute awarded to heads of state. With him, settling down for an indefinite stay in Morocco, was the top leadership of the F.L.N. Evident purpose of the F.L.N. migration: to cement relations with a major...
...committed to release from prison Mohammed ben Bella and four other F.L.N. Cabinet members who were captured in 1956 when the pilot of their plane was tricked into landing on French territory. Once freed, the F.L.N. ministers will be returned by the French to their point of origin: Morocco, Benkhedda evidently wants to be on hand to welcome his old comrades...
...instead of upward over his head, the explosion might well have caught him in the face. Less stoically, shaken aides hustled the protesting Generalissimo off to a Spanish air force hospital for his first in-patient treatment since 1916, when Riff rebels wounded him in the stomach in Spanish Morocco. At the hospital, Spain's top surgeons removed fragments of Franco's gun and shooting glove from his hand, saved his badly torn index finger. Three days later, despite continuing pain, the portly chief of state was back in the palace, polishing up his year-end broadcast...
...Morocco...
...bourgeois" tradition of Christmas, citizens still crowd into department stores and exchange gifts around the "New Year's trees" while children babble about "Grandfather Frost." In Hindu India, gifts and greetings are exchanged, and on Christmas Day the shops close and liquor prohibitions are relaxed. In Islamic Morocco, seven-year-old Princess Amina, daughter of the late King Mohammed V, will give a Santa Claus party for 2,000 children and present them all with gifts. In Japan, whose 700,000 Christians account for only .0075 of the population, canny retailers are decorating their stores with Christmas trees...