Word: prolisario
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...part of the sparsely populated (60,000 nomads), mineral-rich region. Pressure on Madrid intensified last month when ten Spanish soldiers based in the Sahara disappeared. Their fate remains unknown. It has also been reported that Moroccan troops fired on two Spanish helicopters. Another headache for Madrid is the Prolisario Front, an indigenous nomad independence movement thought to be backed by both Algeria and Libya; last week the Front captured 14 Arab members of the colony's territorial police...
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