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Last week brought good news of air bases for the West's air arm: ¶The U.S. Air Force announced conclusion of an agreement with France to build five permanent air bases and a permanent headquarters for the Strategic Air Command's 5th Air Division in Morocco. From Britain, an unrevealed number of B50 medium bombers flew to the new bases (see map) described as "under development." ¶The U.S. reached agreement with Saudi Arabia to use its huge U.S.-built Dhahran Airfield for the next five years. Hitherto, the U.S. has had only year-to-year agreements...
Because of steadily rising production costs, its producers announced last week, they will cease production next fall after releasing three final subjects (on Morocco, Iran, Formosa). Thereafter, M.O.T. will concentrate its facilities on making films for TV, with occasional documentary subjects for theater release...
...world's top foreign correspondents; after long illness; in Washington, D.C. At 20, he was in the Balkans covering the war between Bulgaria and Serbia for the New York Herald, from then on made the world his beat. Between 1889 and 1911, he chronicled wars and skirmishes in Morocco, Macedonia, Manchuria, Cuba, the Philippines, Venezuela, Russia (the 1907 revolution), Mexico. As a lieutenant colonel, Bonsal served as President Wilson's interpreter at Versailles, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Unfinished Business, his incisive footnotes to the 1919 Peace Conference...
...Hour after hour, French army planes circled Morocco's barren Atlas Mountains. Turbaned goumiers, the fierce Moroccan troops, scrambled through narrow ravines and over rocky ridges. Gendarmes followed police dogs straining for a scent over the mountain passes. In all, some 12,000 hunters were combing the hills for a rifle-toting tribesman who in one week had murdered seven people, wounded two others...
...Berber and ordered him to hold the horse while he dismounted. He had also handed Amou his rifle to hold (although the Berbers, a proud, sensitive people who had ruled the land long before the Arabs or the French got there, are not permitted to own rifles in Morocco). Amou calmly took the gun, drew a bead on the corporal and killed him. Then he fled to the hills with the gun and 21 cartridges...