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Never one to conceal her charms behind the veils of maidenly Moslem modesty, pretty Princess Aisha, 26, the French-educated eldest daughter of King Mohammed V of Morocco, is an ardent champion of women's rights in Islam, an area where a lot of pioneering remains to be done on the subject. Last week she carried her fight to Damascus, and proved herself as delectable an agitator as ever made an Arab forget John Foster Dulles. Syria, which had other things to worry about, feted her all week, put her up in a palace, provided her with a Cadillac...
...Arab Women's Federation in Damascus, smoking cigarettes with Continental casualness in a decolleté, skin-tight gown which had the other 300 delegates from nine Arab countries* goggling, the princess tucked one shapely foot under her and discussed her favorite topics: divorce and the veil. Morocco, she said, will soon have a law requiring men to produce legitimate reasons for a divorce instead of just telling a woman three times to go away. "Of course," she added, "we cannot forbid divorce, and besides, if a man and woman don't get along, they should not be forced...
Nine months ago Algeria's rebels set out to destroy this iron limb of French imperialism. Basing themselves in newly independent Morocco-at some points the Colomb-Béchar line runs within a mile and a half of Moroccan territory -the guerrillas slipped into Algeria by night, laying mines, blowing up bridges and ripping up track. By last week they had blown up all of the line's 116 permanent bridges, destroyed 40 freight cars and six electric engines...
Under this bombardment, the train's former passengers have taken to flying, and the coal once carried to Oran from the mines of Colomb-Béchar is now diverted by way of Morocco. But for the prestige-conscious French, the train must chuff on. Once a week it sets forth from Colomb-Béchar, but only after two regiments of Foreign Legionnaires and Senegalese have inspected every inch of the line...
...rebel force harrying the Colomb-Béchar Express is only one of a number of Algerian guerrilla bands which have long operated in and out of neighboring Morocco and Tunisia. Last week on Algeria's eastern border, a patrol of the French Army's 26th Motorized Infantry Regiment, ambushed by a small band of Algerian guerrillas, chased its attackers 300 yards inside Tunisia. When Tunisian troops tried to intervene, the French killed six Tunisians as well as six Algerians. In response to an indignant protest from the Tunisian government, French Commander in Chief in Algeria, General Raoul...