Word: rabat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bold Enough. Gratefully, King Hassan organized a big hunting party near Rabat, took the Yugoslav leader for a ride on one of his new superslick yellow-and-red diesel trains, just delivered from France, as thousands of Moroccans cheered. Then Tito steamed off for six days of talks with President Habib Bourguiba in Tunis and with the Algerian F.L.N. rebel leaders. Urging negotiations with France, Tito told F.L.N. Chief Ferhat Abbas: "You must be bold enough to know when to call...
...saved until the last his only real bit of bait for the rebels. "Someone asked me a question about Ben Bella?" he inquired, his long nose sweeping the room. No one had, but De Gaulle went on to promise that the F.L.N. leader, kidnaped off a plane out of Rabat back in 1956 and now jailed in France, would get "considerably more liberal treatment" (presumably removal from a cell to comfortable house arrest) once the Lake Geneva talks opened, and his freedom, once a cease-fire is signed. Thereupon, De Gaulle took off on a tour of Southwest France...
...Bekkai, 54, first Premier of independent Morocco (1956-58), who fought for France in World War II as a lieutenant colonel of cavalry, losing a leg in the Ardennes, later fought against France in the struggle to end foreign rule in his country; of a heart attack; in Rabat...
...Access. Next day, Bourguiba flew to Rabat for the funeral of Morocco's King Mohammed V (see above) and to meet with new King Hassan II and the provisional Premier of the F.L.N., Ferhat Abbas. After a late dinner, the three talked until hours past midnight. With the young King's help, Bourguiba tried to soften the rigid and suspicious posture of the F.L.N. and assure them of De Gaulle's good faith...
Died. Mohammed V, 51, King of Morocco; following nasal surgery; in Rabat (see FOREIGN NEWS...