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...tournament's biggest upset so far: the Irish victory over Italy, 1-0. The Yanks held their own, tying Switzerland 1-1. Other scores: Saturday, June 18 -- Romania 3, Colombia 1 . . . Sunday, June 19 -- Cameroon 2, Sweden 2 . . . Norway 1, Mexico 0 . . . Belgium 1, Morocco 0 . . . Monday, June 20--Brazil 2, Russia...
Eisenhower, now a lieutenant general based in London, was chosen to command Operation Torch, which went ashore in Morocco and Algeria in November 1942. His forces then moved into Tunisia to link up with Montgomery's Eighth Army, freeing all North Africa from the Axis. By the time the U.S. persuaded Churchill to undertake a Normandy attack, Eisenhower had commanded two more seaborne invasions during 1943: Sicily and mainland Italy. They were sideshows in his eyes -- and the Italian campaign quickly bogged down into a bloody mile-by-mile struggle up the peninsula -- but they taught him a great deal...
...some time now. Rumors as to Seth's mysterious whereabouts abounded: some were terrifying, like the one that had Seth vacationing with Kurt Cobain in Europe. Some were just plain ugly. Imagine the things we heard! Why, one speculator guessed that Seth was pimping under an assumed name in Morocco. In any case, FM had just about given up on ever hearing from Seth again when we received this memo, brought in late last night by a strange, hairy man who had fear in his eyes and the stench of death on his skin...
After serving for three years with the U.S. Navy in Morocco, Thomas J. Vittorioso served his apprenticeship in carpentry. But he was drawn away from his trade by the lure of the theater, he says...
...repercussions of the Israel-P.L.O. agreement spread quickly throughout the region. On his way home from the signing ceremony, Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin stopped off in Morocco for an unprecedented meeting with King Hassan II; diplomatic relations may follow. Jordan and Israel signed an agreement laying out the framework for their own peace discussions. But Rabin lambasted Syria for allowing anti-Israel guerrillas to continue to operate in southern Lebanon. Meanwhile, in the Gaza Strip three Israeli soldiers were ambushed and killed and a Palestinian blew himself up in a botched attack on an Israeli police station...