Word: tangier
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...recommended that Vincent be dismissed. State responded by suspending the diplomat and ordering him home from Tangier, where he was assigned 21 months ago as Minister. The final decision to fire him must come from Harry Truman, who promised to talk it over with Dean Acheson...
...fear of pirates was always uppermost in the thoughts of Dutch merchant skippers sailing their heavy-laden East Indiamen along the coasts of Africa. No such grim foreboding clutched the heart of Johannes Van Delft, master of the tiny (265 tons) Dutch coaster Combinatie, as he put out of Tangier Harbor into the Strait of Gibraltar, bound for Malta, one day last month, laden with $100,000 worth of U.S. cigarettes. It was the 20th century; the sky was blue overhead; ten kegs of good Holland beer were stowed below, to complement the vessel's small water supply...
...been taken by the vanished pirates. Only a chart, with the Combinatie's position marked on it, had been left. Cornelius' overworked diesel engine was wheezing at the point of death. The captain ordered a jury sail rigged from deck canvas and pointed his bow back to Tangier...
...adjoining French Morocco last week, the 40th anniversary of the Treaty of Fez (by which the territory passed into French control) rolled around. In Tangier, an international port which Moors view as part of Morocco, rioters ran amuck in the streets, smashed shop fronts, looted, beat up Europeans. At least a score were injured, and several killed...
...Tangier is only too ready to oblige. Like bugs out of the woodwork, a string of unsavory characters creeps into Dyar's empty world. There is Hadija, an Arab prostitute, who gives him the illusion that he is capable of falling in love. There is Jack Wilcox, an American black-marketeer, who turns Dyar into an accomplice in his currency deals. There is Madame Jouvenon, the Soviet agent who hands him a fat check for "small bits of information." Before long, Dyar is able to feel that he is no longer "supremely anonymous." By the end of the novel...