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Three Arab nations boycotted Nasser's summit outright: Morocco, Algeria and Iraq. Morocco's King Hassan probably stayed away simply to avoid entanglement in a faraway fight. The other two did so out of sympathy with the guerrillas. Libya's youthful new strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who has remained outwardly loyal to Nasser, attended the conference-but only after siding strongly with the Palestinians and offering to send Libyan troops into the fight on the commandos' side. Nothing ever came of that, but there is speculation that Gaddafi, who came to power last year...
...such a huge surplus that one company has taken to spraying rice grains out of pressurized nozzles in order to clean the blades of air-cooling fans. Other countries feeling the impact of the Green Revolution are Turkey, Malaysia, Burma, Indonesia, South Viet Nam, Afghanistan, Kenya, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Brazil and Paraguay...
...have flocked to southern Lebanon from Syria and Jordan in order to harass Israelis across the border. But in putting down the fedayeen, the army would enrage the 300,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and probably bring down the government. Though Karami considered inviting troops from Tunisia and Morocco to help seal the border, the Cabinet decided instead to enforce a seven-month-old agreement under which the guerrillas are forbidden to carry arms in Lebanese villages or to fire into Israel from Lebanese territory. Even that decision was watered down. The government decided that any commando who can prove...
Died. Thomas Butler, 57, the Scotland Yard detective who caught the "Great Train Robbers"; of lung cancer; in London. It took five years of tracking down clues from Britain to Morocco to South America before the Yard's "Gray Fox" finally nabbed the last of the 15 thieves who in August 1963 made off with more than $7,000,000 from a Glasgow-to-London mail train. Closing that case was the capstone of a 34-year career in which Butler, according to admiring colleagues, combined the intellect of Sherlock Holmes with the persistence of Inspector Maigret...
...bush-league smugglers. Says Agent Cusack: "They use methods that would make a professional pusher blush-putting the stuff in the mail or hiding it under the back seat of a car." In Algeciras, Spanish customs officers last year arrested 64 Americans as they stepped off the ferry from Morocco. If Moroccan dope peddlers have not already fingered the Americans in advance, Spanish agents have little trouble picking out probable smugglers. The giveaways: hippy dress ("a long or loose anything"), and talkative over-friendliness...