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...left Hand was a Crocodile-bound Edition of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Dropping from his Right was a golden Sling, in whose Pouch rested a Bronze-studded, Morocco-bound Copy of Samuelson's Economics. Gazing down with Compassion at the charging, wildly braying, thundering Hordes, a Talon grazed near...
Maghreb Unity. If Libya and the Sudan seemed mesmerized by Nasser, the other Arab states were finding him eminently resistible. Despite their ideological differences, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia-three states of North Africa's historic Maghreb-appeared to be moving toward closer relations again. Boumedienne is shuffling Algeria's ambassadors, and has warned them that henceforth they will be graded on how much they foster commercial relationships rather than on how well they spout anti-Israel rhetoric...
...send our armies to the front line," retorted Algeria's President Houari Boumedienne. "You can't do that yourself. Most of your officers are in jail." The Arab leaders finally approved the mobilization plan, but with nothing approaching unanimity. The vote was 9 to 4, with Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Saudi Arabia opposed and Kuwait abstaining...
...experimenting with eroticism and the juxtaposition of light and shadow to create haunting shifts of mood. Perhaps his greatest coup was the discovery of a young unknown named Marlene Dietrich, whom he cast in 1930 in The Blue Angel and in six other well-remembered films, among them Morocco (1930), Shanghai Express (1932) and Scarlet Empress...
...Paris. Catroux led troops during the conquests in North Africa, the Middle East and Indo-China, but later joined De Gaulle in dissolving the empire. He personally issued the proclamation freeing Syria in September 1941 and Lebanon two months later, in 1955 negotiated the return of the Sultan of Morocco to his throne and later vigorously supported Algerian independence. For all of this he earned De Gaulle's praise as a soldier "possessing the sense of the greatness of France...