Word: morocco
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ancient superstition holds true, Gibraltar will be British just as long as it is inhabited by the famed Barbary apes that somehow found their way there from Morocco. In 1941, after Hitler promised to deliver the Rock to Franco in return for Spain's wartime support, word reached Winston Churchill that the simian population was dangerously depleted. The Prime Minister cabled back: STRENGTH OF ROCK APE PACK TO BE KEPT UP AT ALL COST. It was - and the cost was high indeed. For every ape smuggled onto the Rock by Franco's soldiery, the British handed over...
...money was raised, Sheik Abdullah as Salim as Sabah of oil-rich Kuwait left the horse shoe conference table for the men's room. But last week Sabah pledged $4,500,000 a year for five years to the Arab war chest, and Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Morocco and Yemen joined in, raising the total commitments to $14 million annually for the next five years...
...President Gamal Abdel Nasser hopes will be an even greater triumph than the first, held at Cairo last January (TIME, Jan. 24). But some top faces will be absent. Pleading illness, Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba retired to a Swiss clinic and sent his Premier in his place. Morocco's King Hassan II did not even botherwith excuses, and dispatched his younger brother, Prince Abdallah. Saudi Arabia's Prince Feisal grumbled that Arab Kings and Presidents "need to stay home and attend to more serious matters," but finally agreed to put in an appearance...
...agenda is the pious wish to "establish relations among the Arab countries on the sound basis of love and genuine cooperation." But in the Arab world, love is a many-splintered thing, what with 40,000 Egyptian troops fighting a bloody guerrilla war with royalist tribesmen in Yemen, Morocco and Algeria still squabbling over their disputed border, and jails in almost every state jammed with Arab dissenters...
Purposeful Arms. Prince Feisal will probably try to keep the Yemen issue off the Arab summit's agenda and may be supported by the more or less conservative Arab states of Sudan, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco. Nasser's effort to get Arab backing for his Yemen stand against "the British imperialists and Saudi infiltrators" may be backed by Algeria, Kuwait, and his new-found bosom friend, King Hussein of Jordan. Syria, whose Baathist rulers detest Nasser, and Lebanon, which hates quarrels, will probably stay on the sidelines...