The Ben Barka Affair

Only muffled echoes of the great scandal in recent French politics have reached the United States. Below, our Paris correspondent reports on the Ben Barka affair, but first it may help to provide some preliminary information.

Ben Barka, leader of a vaguely leftist opposition in Moroccan politics, had been living in exile. He was, apparently, murdered, and the evidence points to complicity on the part of high officials in both the Gaullist and Moroccan regimes. The trial which followed ...