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...layer of scummy stories. To take one minor instance, the last U.S. payoff to the anti-MPLA forces, over a million dollars, was pocketed by Mobutu of Zaire. Stockwell further notes just how shaky Mobutu's regime is, his reliance on American aid and on French and Belgian and Morroccan troops to put down rebellions. Stockwell tells the story of the Lear jet that belonged to UNITA, given to its leader by a London/Rhodesian investment firm in order to guarantee access to Angola's minerals. There's the case of the CIA advisers in Angola, against the wishes and without...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Book Review | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

Currently on a Shaw Travelling Fellowship, Kopit will cut short a Morroccan visit to see his play with a Feb. 4 audience that will include prospective agents, producers, and the theatre critic of Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kopit to Return For 'Oh Dad' Run | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

...projects range throughout the curriculum, from American studies to Zoology. This year, for example, papers are being written on such diverse subjects as the later poetry of Yeats, the sociological and psychological aspects of war, Central Rhodesian federation, Karl Kraus (a Viennese journalist), and Morroccan nationalism; one Scholar is writing short stories. As Yale sorely lacks a plethora of creative writing courses, many prospective writers have taken advantage of the program to test their capabilities; in fact, there have usually been more than one creative writer in the program...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: The Scholars of the House Program at Yale: Praise From the Faculty, Student Criticism | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...horsemen looked at one another in awestruck silence; for it was certain that an outlaw band of hostile Morroccan tribesmen had kidnapped M. et Mme. Yvse Steeg, M. et Mme. Jean Maillet, nephew and stepson and their wives of Theodore Steeg, French Resident General of Morrocco, the highest official of the Republic in the Morrocco protectorate. The party had gone ahunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: In Morrocco | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

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