Word: morocco
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...mission of mercy, but that didn't stop the missiles. Two DC-7s chartered by the U.S. Agency for International Development were flying over a desolate no-man's-land in Mauritania near the Moroccan border when they came under fire. The planes were ferrying insecticide to Morocco to combat the plague of locusts that has ravaged the continent this year...
...They said they were albinos from Morocco. How was I supposed to know...
Paula Wolfert's World of Food (Harper & Row; $25) is a solid, serious and sensuous collection of her favorite recipes, sprinkled liberally with her usual didactic asides. A specialist in the cuisines of Morocco, southwest France and the Mediterranean, Wolfert wanders afield and offers up not only caponata, the Sicilian vegetable appetizer, and the fragrant tagine stews of Morocco but also the lusty Alsatian casserole of meat, onions and potatoes known as backeoffe...
...Reading, and there I got off. I stood vacantly watching commuters and families getting into cars, until the tracks behind me were once again empty. I had come to this little town to bury my mind in forgetfulness; it wasn't exactly a desolate port in nether-Morocco, and I saw no boozy-eyed sirens waiting to lure me into a self-destructive spiral of wanton liberalism which would tragically end in the complete disappearance from my memory of the Pledge of Allegiance, a jail term and eventual furlough, but I decided to go explore anyway...
...Even Chile may soon follow. Regional conflicts are being resolved at an extraordinary rate. The Soviets are leaving Afghanistan. They are putting pressure on Viet Nam to leave Kampuchea and on Cuba to leave Angola. Iran and Iraq are in a cease-fire. Even the endless Saharan war between Morocco and the Polisario guerrillas appears near settlement...