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...From its birth in 1948, Israel had always maintained secret contacts with its Arab enemies, largely through Mossad, the intelligence service that operated as a sort of underground diplomatic corps for the Jewish state. TIME has learned that these contacts between Israel and a number of Arab states, notably Morocco, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, bolstered Sadat's confidence and set the stage for his Peace Initiative. The following narrative is based on TIME'S reporting from several of the nations involved...
Begin's angry outburst even spilled over into the Knesset cafeteria after the debate, where the Premier, according to numerous witnesses, cursed Peres in Russian and Polish. He also disclosed that Peres had met secretly with King Hassan II of Morocco in Rabat following the Sadat talks and "even dared to ask my permission to meet with [Jordan's] King Hussein." Labor Party officials seeking future meetings with Arab leaders, he warned, would not be issued passports. TIME has learned that Hussein, who was honeymooning in England, had requested a meeting with Peres through former King Constantine...
...Africa that classified the Western Sahara as a nonindependent country. The Algerians, who support Polisario guerrillas fighting for the area's independence, were penciling in "independent" when the Moroccans chanced along and tried to ink in boundary lines indicating that Western Sahara had been partitioned between Morocco and Mauritania. A brief, fierce struggle ensued...
...officers accused Daddah of corruption, but a more likely reason for the coup was Mauritania's woeful record in the drawn-out guerrilla war it is fighting, alongside Morocco, in the former Spanish Sahara. The two countries moved into the phosphate-rich colony in 1975, when Spain agreed to withdraw its troops. Despite military help from Morocco and France, Mauritania has been battered by the 5,000 members of the Marxistoriented, Algerian-backed, Polisario guerrilla movement, which demands independence for the region...
...make Shaba secure, Zaïre will need outside military assistance for its poorly organized and undisciplined 40,000-man army. The diplomatic question was how to provide it. After getting assurances that other moderate African states would help, Morocco's King Hassan II agreed to come to the rescue, as he had done following a similar raid on Shaba by Katangese rebels a year earlier. The King, however, is opposed to a plan, favored by French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, to create a permanent pan-African military force under Western auspices that would...