Word: barka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Casablanca movie house to announce the formation of a new political party, the National Union of Popular Forces. It was the most important political development in Morocco since the North African kingdom got its independence 3½ years ago, and it made its leader, 39-year-old Mehdi ben Barka, the most important man in Morocco next to King Mohammed V and the monarchy's unquestioned challenger...
...being changed." Ghana, which modeled its civil-service training on Puerto Rico's, was getting advice on industrialization from two of the island's experts. Prabha Prachasubhaniti of Bangkok Technical Institute copied in his school a workshop setup he had seen in Puerto Rico. Mehdi ben Barka, president of Morocco's Consultative Assembly, took inspiration for his development program (TIME, Sept. 9) from a look at the island last fall...
Back home again, Ben Barka began casting about for suitable self-help projects, soon thought of the rugged Rif mountains, which form a natural barrier between North and South Morocco and until last year marked the boundary between the French and Spanish zones of occupation. Following the classic policy of divide and rule, the two occupying powers had left the central Rif roadless and virtually impassable. One thing Morocco could do, decided Ben Barka, was to build a road through...
Tents & Tasks. In late spring, with the enthusiastic approval of Morocco's new King Mohammed V, Ben Barka made a dramatic appeal to young men: give your country one month's labor on the Unity Road. Of the 36,000 youths who answered his call, 12,000 were finally selected on the basis of geographical distribution-Negroes, fair-skinned Berbers, and Arabs from the coastal cities. France (in whose detention camps ex-Revolutionary Ben Barka spent nearly four years) contributed tents for the volunteers and the U.S. provided $100,000 worth of blankets, mess kits and army uniforms...
Expected to cost roughly $500,000-less than half what it would have cost to build it with conventional labor-the Unity Road will serve as an invaluable commercial and political link between Morocco's interior and its Mediterranean ports. More important in Ben Barka's eyes is the fact that it has already created 12,000 missionaries for a new Morocco, men who will serve as leaders in future self-help projects. "We are building the road," reads the motto of Ben Barka's volunteers, "and the road is building...