Word: fassi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eager left-wing social reformers and skillful politicians united by a passionate desire for freedom from French rule. When independence came, the cement that held this unlikely combination together began to crumble, and last January the party fell apart. Its right wing is led by the conservative Allal el Fassi, 49, who is little interested in Morocco's masses, devotes much of his time to visionary schemes for a "Greater Morocco," including large chunks of the Sahara. Istiqlal's left wing, which Ben Barka led away to form the nucleus of his new party, impatiently demands land redistribution...
Fortnight ago, in a crisis brought on by the leftists, conservative Premier Ahmed Balafrej and his government resigned. Harassed King Mohammed promptly turned to the one man who seemed to have the authority to halt the bickering inside the Istiqlal; he asked Allal el Fassi, 48, the party's political leader, to become Premier. El Fassi is both a religious mystic and a rabble-rousing extreme nationalist who has led the agitation for a "Greater Morocco," to include large hunks of the French Sahara. He proposed too many leftist Cabinet ministers to suit the King. Last week the King...
...Franco to give Ifni back. The demand was part of Morocco's reassertion of its ancient claims on the Sahara region stretching from the Atlantic coast down to French Mauritania (part of French West Africa). "Every grain of the Sahara belongs to Morocco," cried bearded Si Allal el Fassi, chief of Morocco's dominant Istiqlal Party. Guerrillas of the old Moroccan Army of Liberation, no longer occupied with fighting the French, moved into the scrublands around the Ifni frontier. No sooner had the King departed for his visit to the U.S. than the irregulars assembled a motley force...
...intellectual, membership mostly trade unionist. But one of Mohammed's problems is how to balance its laicist modernists against the conservative religionists of the medinas and the rural areas. Chief of the Istiqlal, and probably the most popular man in Morocco after the Sultan himself, is Allal el Fassi, a fire-breathing orator who spent nine years in exile, mostly in Cairo...
...formula of "internal autonomy"; for Moroccans the happy phrase was "independence within interdependence." Now Bourguiba proposed a referendum in which Algerians could choose between 1) independence, 2) status quo with a reform program, 3) federation with some form of internal autonomy. Snorted Moroccan Rabble-Rouser Allal el Fassi, who takes his cue from Nasser: "The time is not yet ripe for solutions...