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...Richter scale. (The Richter scale is logarithmic, meaning that each number represents a tenfold increase in magnitude.) Although small quakes can create major damage if they occur in a densely populated area - a 1960 earthquake in Morocco registered only 5.75 but destroyed the entire city of Agadir and killed 12,000 people - earthquakes above a 6 are almost guaranteed...
...almost 7,000 residence permits local authorities say French nationals now hold. Some 17,000 homes in and around Marrakech, meanwhile, are French-owned. And while Marrakech and its cultural marvels have traditionally been the main destination of Europeans relocating to Morocco, coastal cities and towns like Agadir, Essaouira, Tangier and increasingly Rabat have become booming real estate markets with the arrival of house-hunting pensioners in recent years. French transplants remain the largest group, but Italian and German seniors are also getting in on the rush - and the British contingent is becoming active in the higher-end sector...
...King has not done is speak to the press, foreign or Moroccan--until last week, when he agreed to let TIME follow him on his peripatetic journeys and do the first interview of his reign. During the jog and more formal talks at a peacock-colored palace in Agadir and during a flight back to Rabat, he came off as confident yet modest, part regal, part ordinary guy. Combining a common touch with strategic vision, he may be the most impressive of the new generation coming to power in the Middle East. Moroccans are calling him M6 for short...
...last winter Morocco's King Hassan II and his trusted lieutenant, General Mohammed Oufkir, were in the seaside resort of Agadir, discussing an official visit by Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to nearby Mauritania. To the King's astonishment, Oufkir suddenly proposed that the Moroccan air force be used to assassinate Gaddafi, who had never made any secret of his antipathy toward Hassan. "If only we could find out Gaddafi's flight plan," asked Oufkir, "what would you think of sending an F-5 to smash into him in the middle of the desert...
...radios at La Gazelle d'Or, no television sets; phones can be switched off, and the only prod to physical activity is a swimming pool-unheated. Compare that with the kind of activity available at the Club Mediterranee's 650-guest "vacation village," 45 miles away at Agadir on the Atlantic. "You name it, we do it," says Manageress Marcelle Fayt. "Sailing, riding, tennis, yoga, judo, camel riding, Scrabble, swimming, sunning, pingpong, desert safaris, deep-sea fishing, drinking, eating, kissing and frugging." All in two weeks, for $240 a person, including round-trip air fare from Paris...