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Football: Sky Blue Joachim.(Sport)
; ...a player-plus-cash move to Highfield Road. Villa are ready to allow the former England Under-21 international to leave as part of the deal which could see Morocco international midfielder Moustapha Hadji move the other way. CAPTION(S): JOACHIM
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MOROCCO: MOROCCO RECEIVES $13.04 MILLION LOAN FROM CHINA.(Brief Article)
; Morocco signed a contract with the Chinese Eximbank (Import-Export Bank) which will see Morocco receive $13.04 million in loans for the construction of polyclinics in several parts of Morocco, Arabic News reports. Moroccan...
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The Extraordinary Case of Captain Virgilio Leret.(Virgilio Leret Ruiz invented jet)
; ...part of the Riff War (1909-25) in Spanish Morocco, first as an infantry officer cadet...Castillo de Hacho fortress in Ceuta, Spanish Morocco, for having made a remark betraying...the flying-boat base at Melilla in Spanish Morocco and it was there that he was killed...
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A newspaperman in Madrid: David Wurtzel has been reading the diary of Lester Ziffren, the United Press correspondent in Madrid who, seventy years ago this month, witnessed the start of the Spanish Civil War.(CROSS CURRENT)
; ...afternoon there had been rumours that something was going on in Spanish Morocco. During the course of a long night, Ziff pulled every string...scoop since coming to Madrid in 1933. The army rebellion in Spanish Morocco signalled the start of a military coup against the Republican...
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BLOODBATH IN THE BULLRINGS.
; ...General Franco flew from his exile in the Canary Islands to Spanish Morocco and raised the flag of rebellion. His strike force would...notorious for its ferocity against captured villages in Spanish Morocco. As their commander, Franco exercised incredibly harsh discipline...
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KNOW AFRICA: MOROCCO
; ...Morocco was also given to the Spanish thus creating French and Spanish Morocco. The French settlers arrived in Morocco in large numbers...monarch and on March 2, 1956 granted independence to Morocco. Spanish Morocco was later returned to the rest of independent Morocco. King...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1928: Blast Wreaks Destruction
; 00-00-0000 MELLILA (Spanish Morocco): At least sixty soldiers were killed and 200 seriously injured in the explosion of a powder magazine here early this morning...
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Dallas-Area Spas Try to Ease Customers' Economic Strain.
; ...Jan. 26--Tougher economic times mean fewer vacations for David and Marilyn Newman. Yet the Southlake couple still manages to see Morocco, the Caribbean and the French wine country on a regular basis. They are regular clients at Elixir Salon and Day Maker, where...
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Carmen Polo de Franco of Spain Dies
; ...colonel, on Oct. 22, 1923, and the couple left soon after for Spanish Morocco, where Franco fought in the Riff Wars. Mrs. Franco was believed...consulted before deciding to assume control of an army revolt in Spanish Morocco that eventually led to the outbreak of the Civil War and...
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