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...Europe's most durable dictators, Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco entertains a deep-seated distrust for the helter-skelter ways of democracy. Last week he made it plain that he wants none of it in Spanish Morocco...
...months early. In his nine months, Faure had kept the economy stable and thriving, got the Paris Accords through the Senate, and provided the West with a sturdy friend in the person of Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay. But Faure had lost much of his right in his concessions to Morocco, most of the left in his hesitations in making the concessions. The Communists, who had saved him twice, had now changed their minds. His only sure supporters were Pinay's conservative Independents and the Catholic M.R.P., and the result was a foregone conclusion. "At best, a third-rate funeral...
...Dienbienphu last year was a veteran warrant officer named Mohammed el Khabouchi. By the time the Communists let him go, they had taught him to hate his French masters. Last week French officials identified 36-year-old El Khabouchi as the commander of a thousand Berber rebels lurking in Morocco's Rif Mountains. He hides out in the Spanish Moroccan hamlet of Talamrhecht, and on occasion sneaks across the border to shoot up his old home town of Tizi Ouzli, or to ambush passing convoys. El Khabouchi's Berbers and other rebel bands are currently tying down seven...
...week after Sultan Mohammed V returned to Morocco's throne, it was still an open question whether he or anyone else would be able to keep order in Morocco's restive land. The Sultan could not trust some 400 pashas and caids (local administrators) who had endorsed his banishment by the French. They, in turn, fearing reprisals from the Sultan's friends, dared not assert their authority or exact their usual tithes from restless Berber tribes. The new French Resident General, Andre Louis Dubois, had turned over much of the police power to Moroccans, concentrating...
Next door to Morocco, Algerian troublemakers, not to be outdone, persisted in shooting up the place. In Algiers an assassin fired three shots from his bicycle, disappeared leaving a police commissioner dead on the pavement. In Constantine, a rebel stamping ground in eastern Algeria, French troops battled guerrilla bandits, captured 77. Later, a French troop detachment and then an army supply truck were ambushed. The week's dead...