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...African leaders, with the modest aim of soberly exploring their common problems. As it turned out, the delegates who came to Monrovia represent a majority of independent Africans -some 95 million of free Africa's 186 million citizens. Significantly absent were the five obstreperous Casablanca powers: the U.A.R., Morocco, Guinea, Ghana and Mali (the Congo and South Africa were not invited). Originally, Guinea's Sekou Toure and Mali's Mobido Keita accepted. But Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, who destroys everything he cannot lead, talked them both out of going...
...issue was one that France had been half avoiding for years, and it involved nothing less than the end of empire. The soldiers who forced the battle had bled and lost in Indo-China. had evacuated Tunisia and Morocco, blaming it all on the "politicians." They had toppled the Fourth Republic in May 1958 to install De Gaulle-who was now telling them only three years later that they had to give up Algeria, the last and bloodiest possession of all. But the soldiers, in their bitter years abroad, had lost all touch with the new sentiments of Metropolitan France...
Trans Wrorld Radio, as the mission is called, was forced to leave Tangier in 1959, when Morocco declared that it was about to incorporate the free port. Its new site in Roman Catholic Monaco, near the summer palace of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, has proved to be admirably suited for the operation. The location is nearer Europe's geographical center. Ready and available were broadcasting facilities installed by Adolf Hitler. Trans World rented the installation from Radio Monte Carlo with a ten-year lease, automatically renewable...
...Communist bloc," says Broadcaster Freed. To prepare the Russian broadcast-a daily half-hour from 7 to 7:30 p.m., which will soon be increased to an hour-Trans World has called on an American couple of Russian Orthodox origin, Nicholas and Rose Leonovich, who live in Morocco. Their typical program begins with folk music, gradually changing to church music-instrumental at first, then sung-followed by a Christian message...
...love with the same shy young intellectual (Jean-Paul Belmondo), the son of a local tradesman. As the Germans retreat, they eagerly start back to Rome, but on the way they are captured and raped by what looks like a gang of goums, wild mountain fighters from French Morocco...