Word: moroccos
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...mural in etched magnesium. In reality, each panel is a blown-up photoengraver's plate of a news photograph-Lyndon with Roosevelt, with Truman, with Eisenhower, with Kennedy. Then at last, Lyndon alone. Above this hubristic album, the stuff of history begins-floodlit document boxes, bound in red morocco with a gold presidential seal emblazoned on each one, stretching tier on tier to the roof...
...attempted coup at the summer palace of Morocco's King Hassan II, carried out by cadets who thought they were rescuing their monarch...
...army elite that governs this equatorial nation of 15 million staged the most confusing hot-weather spectacular since it won independence from Britain 15 years ago. In the space of a few days, rebellious officers toppled the government, imprisoned Numeiry, were toppled themselves and, as happened in Morocco only a week earlier, were summarily executed...
...Soviets quickly supported the dissidents and were noticeably distressed by Numeiry's countercoup. Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, the hotspur of the Arab world, barged into the internal problems of another nation for the second time in two weeks. He was more effective than he had been in Morocco, however. By forcing down a British jet and kidnaping two rebel leaders, he took much of the spunk out of the anti-Numeiry forces...
Both Nasser and Algeria's Houari Boumedienne have had the unsettling experience of learning that a plane with Gaddafi aboard was buzzing their capitals without their having the faintest notion of why he had come. During Morocco's recent abortive coup, he offered King Hassan's enemies military aid before he even knew what was happening or who the rebels were. Then came last week's capture of a BOAC jet and the kidnaping of two of its Sudanese passengers. Gaddafi is young, dedicated, naive and, some say, irrational as well. He certainly is as impetuous...