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Exhausted after a four-day foray into the salt flats of the Spanish Sahara (TIME, Nov. 17), Morocco's 350,000 "peace marchers" were loaded into trucks last week and driven back to tent camps at Tarfaya, 21 miles north of the Sahara border. The marchers, never told of the international uproar their crusade had caused, were bewildered by the abrupt about-face. But they obediently played out their roles in one of the greatest anticlimaxes in recent history...
...aggression," along the lines of stealing parking meters, destroying bathrooms, that sort of thing. Two years ago they elected a parking meter named Pancho Valdez to a post in student government. (For months afterwards, "Free Pancho Valdez" graffiti could be seen all over the Yale campus.) But their major foray into public depravity on a grand scale, an event every Yale upperclassman remembers, was something called BUTTFUCK...
Still, tens of thousands live in shantytowns around the main cities, there is a 75% illiteracy rate, and annual,per capita income is $400. Whatever the result of Hassan's Saharan foray, those problems will continue to pose a threat to his rule and his life...
Except for one bried foray into Last Tango in Paris the superb player never even touched upon a single request for his old music--not even Encuentros--to his audience's dismay...
Many Americans have found that; holiday in their own country is now less expensive than almost any foreign foray, whether they buy the cheapest ticket -the Greyhound Ameripass, 30 days of unlimited bus travel for $175-or go for a fly-and-drive tour of the Northwest. Travel within the U.S. has shown a marked increase, notably in the South and West. Alaska and Hawaii have also enjoyed a bumper summer. Heading south into Baja California along the new transpeninsular highway, gringo travelers have discovered such little-known Mexican resorts as Puerto Escondido, Loreto and Mulegé, all moderately priced...