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...purely unofficial occasions on the trip, for through the long tour Nixon rarely allowed himself to lose sight of his diplomatic job. And-as correspondents began to discover toward the end of the tour-the job was far more than handshakes and baby-patting. On his seven-nation (Morocco, Ghana, Liberia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya) African go-round, he held down-to-earth closed-door conferences with African leaders, learned how to juggle tactfully the usual requests for foreign aid, came away each time satisfied that he had done something to explain the goals and hopes...
...nationalists base their claim on the fact that 900 years ago the famed Almoravide Dynasty, from which they reckon descent, ruled all of northwest Africa from the Strait of Gibraltar (its Moorish legions settled in Seville) to dark Senegal and the swamps of the Niger. The new kingdom of Morocco occupies about a fifth of this old Almoravide empire. The remainder of the area is divided between Spain's Rio de Oro, a corner of Algeria, the huge French West African province of Mauritania, and a chunk of the French Sudan reaching a few hundred miles north of legendary...
Civilized Sahara. The nomads of these countries have one chief thing in common with the modern Moroccans: the Moslem religion. It is being used to arouse the Moroccan people to a sense of the imperial grandeur awaiting them outside their back door. Stumping Morocco, Si Allal el Fassi, rabble-rousing leader of the national Istiqlal Party, cries: "Our culture is the culture of the Sahara. Our civilization is the civilization of the Sahara. Our religion is the religion of the Sahara." Then, to excited thousands, he delivers his message: "The battle for the Sahara has begun. We must...
...Fassi's battle for the Sahara sand is a picayune affair so far. Commandos of his liberation army, no longer needed to fight the French in Morocco, have been trucked down through the Rio de Oro and loosed in vast, sparsely settled Mauritania. Joined by turbaned camel riders who dearly love to fight, Moroccan irregulars have launched attacks on isolated French outposts, killed half a dozen French soldiers and burned a few French armored cars. North of Fort Trinquet last month there was a more serious clash in which, according to Moroccan reports, the French lost 22 men. Nevertheless...
What worries the French, more than the troubles in Mauritania, is the new outburst of expansive nationalism in Morocco. To get their iron and copper out of Mauritania and western Algeria, they would like to go through Morocco, and to do that they need good relations with the kingdom they recently freed. Fortnight ago the Moroccan government officially asked France to negotiate on the future of the Saharan frontier. Last week Si Allal el Fassi brought out the first edition of a 16-page weekly propaganda sheet, called The Moroccan Sahara, dedicated to freeing "our Sahara...