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Like angry ants in a vast sandpile, the combatants in a little-known African war of liberation are carrying out search-and-destroy missions in the desolate 100,000-sq.-mi. area once known as the Spanish Sahara. On one side are an estimated 30,000 troops from Morocco and Mauritania, which claimed the land that Spain surrendered sovereignty over last year under strong United Nations pressure. Opposing are the 5,000 guerrillas of the Frente Polisario (for Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro, the two provinces involved). Polisario is fighting to gain...
...Sahara war is a standoff. The Moroccans and Mauritanians hold the villages but venture cautiously into the desert for fear of ambush; Polisario fighters as a result roam freely over much of the territory, boastfully but inaccurately declaring it "liberated." The guerrillas, though, have carried the war into both Morocco and Mauritania. Last June Polisario even attempted a mortar attack on the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott (see map). Although the guerrillas lost 200 men, including Polisario's founder, Mohammed Wall, 28, in the battle, they consider the shelling of the Mauritanian capital a great victory. They have brought Mauritania...
Generally, the boycott is taken most seriously by Arab states relatively close to Israel. Saudi Arabia is one of the strictest enforcers of the ban. Without the boycott, U.S. officials estimate, American business in Saudi Arabia would increase by 25%. On the other hand, Morocco and Algeria virtually ignore the boycott. In all, despite the boycott, sales by U.S. firms to Arab countries have soared from $820 million in 1970 to an estimated $7 billion this year. At the same time, American sales to Israel have climbed from $594 million in 1970 to an estimated $1.5 billion this year...
...have compiled 150 pages of chants from ancient Pima in the American Southeast," Fell said. Fell has proven that the chants, once thought to be undecipherable, are written in pure Iberic and Maghrib, languages prevalent in Spain and Morocco...
...then French territory of Algeria in the 19th century. Yves, who was born in the port city of Oran, still feels drawn to the silky, sun-baked lands of North Africa-no longer to the Algeria of his childhood, now an austere socialist state, but to laissez-faire Morocco. There, at his magnificent Arab-style palace in the ancient fortress city of Marrakech, the designer talked at length last week with TIME Paris Bureau Chief Gregory Wierzynski about his aims, his dreams and his worries. Wierzynski 's report...