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...small, greying, no-nonsense soldier, Munoz Grandes was born in Madrid in 1896, received his early military education at the military academy at Toledo, from which he graduated in 1915. For nearly 20 years, he served in Spanish Morocco, where he won a reputation as a fair, able officer. In 1925, while leading one of the Spanish army's Moorish battalions against the Berber uprising in Morocco, he suffered serious chest wounds. One of the leading planners for this campaign was Munoz Grandes' close associate,Colonel Francisco Franco...
...Colony and the Cote Basque," says Ceezee. "And I hate cocktail parties. We usually have people in or go out in the evening-to a dinner or a benefit or a ball. I'm not a great nightclubber, but of course I turn up at El Morocco from time to time. Last winter it was Le Club, I thought it was loads...
...with whom Ben Bella has most in common are the top military lead ers of the F.L.N. army units stationed in Tunisia and Morocco. Unlike the 70,000 F.L.N. guerrillas inside Algeria-most of whom seemed loyal to Benkhedda-the Tunisian and Moroccan detachments have done little fighting against the French. They are uniformed and disciplined men. armed with Russian and Czech weapons, indoctrinated by Marxist commissars...
...wishes. Ben Bella was persuaded not to bring the fight out into the open until independence was gained. Meanwhile he joined with lean, tuberculous Colonel Houari Boumedienne, F.L.N. army commander outside Algeria, in working out a plot to seize power. On independence day, F.L.N. army detachments from Tunisia and Morocco were to cross into Algeria, declare the Provisional Government invalid, and call on Ben Bella to form a new government...
...Morocco, the government placed restrictions on Jewish emigration until last October, and fortnight ago closed down the office of the agency in Casablanca that chartered ships and planes for Jews eager to leave the country. Although Jews who leave for Israel are officially forbidden to return to their homes, there is little overt anti-Semitism in Morocco. But emigration goes on, and businessmen in Casablanca complain that they cannot find Jewish labor. "Morocco is down the drain for us," says one Jewish cafe owner...