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Thus it was that France last week found itself reeling under a scandal bridging two continents and of proportions not felt since the Dreyfus Affair at the turn of the century. It has strained ties between Paris and its onetime protectorate, Morocco, exposed France's security forces to charges of either dark collusion or woeful ineptitude, and forced an angry Charles de Gaulle to admit to the world that the much-vaunted probity of his Fifth Republic is badly tarnished...
...Police Peugeot. The scandal turns about Mehdi ben Barka, a shadowy, diminutive Moroccan émigré who had fled his native land for nomadic exile around the Mediterranean six years ago. The founder of Morocco's leftist National Union of Popular Forces Party, he was twice sentenced to death in absentia for plotting to overthrow King Hassan II. Someone wanted that sentence carried out, at home or abroad -and, to many, the most likely someone was Hassan's rightist Interior Minister, Mohamed Oufkir. Apart from Oufkir's fierce hatred of Ben Barka, there had been rumors...
...afterward, as the cast applauded her backstage, Jackie smiled: "Oh, Alan, I haven't seen anything I loved that much in years." Lerner hadn't gotten that big a rave in the seven weeks since the show opened, so he took the lady over to El Morocco and bought her a glass of champagne...
...twelve-piece band were soon booked for $3,000 a week in the St. Regis Hotel's Maisonette. Almost immediately, the nightclub's business quadrupled. Peter stayed on for three years, and the Maisonette was the only cheek-to-cheek dance spot in New York, besides El Morocco, to prosper in spite of the discotheques...
...Morocco's leftists, the French charges seemed to confirm the suspicions that they had felt all along-that Ben Barka had fallen prey to a right-wing conspiracy not only against the leftists but against Hassan as well. At week's end the Union Marocaine du Travail called a one-day strike in protest against the government's refusal to pursue a full investigation. The King called out troops in both Rabat and Casablanca to keep the strike from turning into full-blown riots...