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Something Borrowed. The Cabinet over which Abbas presides-he is heard with respect but has no decisive voice-is made up of two loose factions. One, which includes Abbas himself, favors some kind of continuing tie with France, in common with the neighboring Moslem states of Morocco and Tunisia. The other group, made up of men intrigued by the dream of Pan-Arabism, favors more extreme measures in fighting the French...
Almost unnoticed, the U.S. has been negotiating to surrender five of its most important overseas airbases: the Strategic Air Command's "frontline" B-47 fields (and a naval air station) in Morocco. Reason for the deal is twofold: 1) nationalist pressure in newly independent Morocco for withdrawal of all foreign forces, U.S. as well as French and Spanish; 2) U.S. judgment that in the near future the Moroccan bomber fields will have lost their present strategic value...
Legally and politically, the U.S. has found itself in an awkward spot ever since the French granted Morocco independence in 1956. Lacking any agreement with the new nation, the U.S. was forced to rest its case on the lease it had signed with the French government five years before. In fact, France still claims technical ownership of the bases...
French flag still flies over the gates. The rising opposition of young Moslem activists in Morocco found the U.S. bases a convenient weapon to use against King Mohammed V's moderate regime. "Aggression and exploitation," cried a Moroccan trade-union weekly. Egged on by extremists, the Moroccan government forbade U.S. ships to land gear, even set up roadblocks near the Atlantic coast in case U.S. ships should try sneak unloading of trailer trucks...
...entire wardrobe consisted of one jacket, one pair of slacks, one pair of shoes, two pairs of blue jeans. But by the St. Paul's catalogue, he needed a much fuller list of clothes, including winter boots and coats. Charles Stafford, a tavern owner from Laconia, N.H. visiting Morocco on a trade mission, met the boy, decided to help. He went home and raised $500 from his state's Rotary Clubs. Adeline Martin, a clerical worker at the Nouasseur air-base near Casablanca, sold the Volkswagen she had won in a raffle, donated a third of her take...