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...favorite spot for higher-priced prostitutes. By then the whole neighborhood was aroused. Alya Me-shali, 18, heard the noise and stepped out of her home to see what it was. A bullet struck her, blowing away most of one leg. Sofia Gamliel, an Arabic-speaking native of Morocco, went to the window and was surprised to hear the guerrillas talking below. "They went across the street to the hotel," said Mrs. Gamliel, "and then I saw through my window shutter bullets of all colors...
...whose sales decisions take into account neither profit nor public opinion. Moscow, for example, beat France on a sale of MIG fighters to its former protectorate of Morocco. Reason: the Soviets offered 17 years of credit at 3% interest, while the best Paris could do was twelve years...
...Guedalla's universe, Granada continues to thrive as a great center of civilization, encompassing most of Spain. After its annexation of Morocco in the 17th century, it takes its place as a formidable European power. Granada is sporadically allied with England, but by 1865 the two countries nearly go to war, the author roguishly reports. Why? Because the poet Swinburne, who in real life had curious difficulties with the opposite sex, is killed while adventuring in the royal seraglio. The scandal is smoothed over, however, partly because of the good feeling left by the fervently pro-Moorish writings...
...decisions on spending and development are ultimately made by Faisal. Other kings of Arab nations have disappeared from Egypt, Yemen, Iraq and most recently Libya, after a military coup there mounted by Muammar Gaddafi; and the thrones of Jordan and Morocco are shaky. But Faisal, whose name in Arabic means sword, remains for now a strong and absolute monarch. His prolific family gives him a solid base. Ibn Saud sired 36 sons, and his son King Saud produced 54 girls and 52 boys. Faisal has had eight sons and six daughters by four wives, two of whom he divorced many...
Even in these face-to-face meetings, though, Jobert remains an enigma. Small in stature (5 ft. 4 in.) and shy in demeanor, Jobert is a world apart from the usual backslapping, smiling politician. Born in Morocco of French parents, he did not come to France to live until he was 18. He graduated from the prestigious National School of Administration, and until Pompidou appointed him Foreign Minister in 1973, he had spent his entire career as a bureaucrat. He is quiet, shakes hands with a stiffness in his right arm from a war wound, and rarely smiles, except...