[Increasingly isolated in the spheres of international diplomacy…]
Socialist Press1979 1979-11-21Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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Increasingly isolated in the spheres of international diplomacy, King Hassan I| of Morocco has suffered another setback " to his colonial adventure in the western Sahara.
Two weeks ago a force of the Polisario Front attacked the conveyor belt which transports phosphates across the desert from the excavations of Bou-Craa to facilities on the Atlantic coast.
Two of the guard and maintenance stations along the belt were completely destroyed, with 60 troops of the Moroccan army of occupation killed:
A swift counter-attack by Moroccan forces, with Mirage bombers, caused very heavy losses fot the Polisario, both of men (Hassan claims a total of 150 dead) and equipment.
But even the reinforcements being drafted in to bolster the occupation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic will not be adequate to turn the balance of a war which is constantly draining Hassan's limited resources and bringing new gains to the fighters of the Polisario Front. Gueiler announced with reinarkable aplomb that "coups have ended for ever in Bolivia".
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