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...second change in plans was for the luxury-loving minister's comfort and convenience. The first one, however, involved an important and secret diplomatic mission. TIME has learned that the reason for Dayan's mysterious disappearance and his unscheduled return to Israel was a rendezvous with Morocco's Hassan II at the King's summer palace in Tangier. Dayan flew to Tangier after disguising himself by taking off his famous black eyepatch and donning dark glasses and a diplomat's Homburg hat. The Moroccan King has met before with other Israeli leaders: his last such...
Another idea, already acted on by Algeria, would create pockets of trees, shrubs and other barriers against the Sahara in a so-called green belt across the breadth of North Africa from Morocco to Egypt. The Sahel nations are talking of a similar desert project in the south...
This time Deneuve-or is it Deneuve-1?-plays an elegant, slightly tarnished Parisienne who, rather implausibly, finds herself accompanying a detachment of French Foreign Legionnaires to Morocco just after World War I. The Legionnaires are assigned to protect a French archaeological expedition against attacks by uppity Arab tribes who seem to think they have a right to their own national treasures. Deneuve is attracted to a roguish cat burglar (Terence Hill), who is seeking refuge in the Legion from the cops. Having already lost a husband and father to war, however, she wants no more entanglements, no more feeling...
...that they had entered Zaïre from Angola, accompanied by 45 Cubans, who quickly departed once the Moroccans arrived on the scene. The Zaïre government claimed to have discovered a cache of 6,000 boxes of arms and ammunition-most of it Soviet-made. In Marrakesh, Morocco's King Hassan II insisted that his troops had found evidence of Cuban and white Angolan presence in Shaba. Despite the Carter Administration's cautious approach to events in Zaïre, a U.S. official in Washington admitted last week that "at the very least, the Russians...
Paper Chase. Two days later, more than 100 of his colleagues gathered at New York's Plaza Hotel for the 13th Annual International Antiquarian Book Fair. There celebrities like Zero Mostel and Jackie Onassis, substantial as morocco-bound sets, and youths, shabby as prison paperbacks, browsed through more than $2 million worth of books, manuscripts and incunabula. Among the items for sale was a two-volume set of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, inscribed by the author. The price for this piece of the true Hakenkreuz...