Word: youssef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospital, some 650 more Moroccans, with symptoms ranging from muscular atrophy of hands and feet to complete paralysis, lay crammed together in crowded quarters. In the Meknes slums, whole families hobbled about on canes. "There are 10,000 people paralyzed," cried Morocco's Health Minister Youssef...
...although unstinting in verbal support for Algeria's Moslem rebels, the Kremlin has given little or no concrete help, has not even recognized the rebel F.L.N. "provisional government." But Red China does recognize the rebel government, and recently feted two of its leaders, Mahmoud Cherif and Youssef ben Khedda, in Peking. Because of the geographical distance, direct Chinese aid could scarcely be anything but financial. But what worries the French more is the possibility that Peking might pressure...
...crowd at Beirut's airport was a spry little Arab in a long white gown and a white skullcap, sandals on his feet and a light of wonder in his eyes. At 71, Ahmed Youssef Murad-sometime Montana homesteader, World War I doughboy, Kentucky restaurant owner and elder of a mosque in Damascus-was happy. "My hadj was a gift of God," he said. "I will do it again if I live...
Habib Bourguiba told his Constituent Assembly: "We have the proof that our disagreement with the U.A.R. is more than a simple misunderstanding." In Cairo lives the exiled Salah ben Youssef, who once fought alongside Bourguiba in the battle for Tunisian independence. Ben Youssef, says Bourguiba, has made seven attempts to kill him, has organized a private army in southern Tunisia to snipe at Bourguiba's soldiers. Bourguiba now has evidence, he went on, that Nasser's government was egging on Ben Youssef's conspiracy...
...news of Pleven's nomination, Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba promptly announced that he no longer intended to reopen Tunisia's U.N. Security Council complaint against France over French air force bombing of the village of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef (TIME, Feb. 17). Said Bourguiba: "Monsieur Bidault's setback is an encouraging sign. His failure shows that there does not exist in the French Parliament . . . any majority for an extremist policy...