Word: hassan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hers for the Asking. A guest of King Hassan II on the last leg of her 16-day vacation, Jackie apparently could have taken home most of Morocco just for the asking. At Hassan's invitation, she visited the King's cloistered wife Lalla Latifa, 19-the only foreigner ever to do so. Jackie brought along toys for the two royal children and in return was swamped with gifts-a sterling silver tea set, gold encrusted tea glasses, a whole wardrobe of caftan robes and more. As she swirled through teeming market bazaars, surrounded by a phalanx...
Home was an apartment in Hassan's Bahia Palace, furnished in white leather and looking out over vast palm groves toward the Atlas Mountains. There a French hair stylist called frequently, did Jackie's hair in a fetching "Parisian nymph" style. Then, reclining on deep-cushioned divans, she would dine with princes of the royal court at low Moroccan tables while Andalusian music trilled a background...
...miles along the north-south border between the two countries. It might not have mattered much, except that beneath the desert sands of the region was discovered one of the world's richest deposits of iron ore (65% pure iron), coal and other minerals. Morocco's King Hassan II claimed the area as part of his ancient kingdom, declared that the Algerian rebels had promised to turn it over in exchange for Morocco's crucial help during the guerrilla war against the French. No such thing, said Ben Bella; the land is Algerian and not subject...
...Born. To Hassan II, 34, strong-willed King of Morocco, and Lalla Latifa, 19, Hassan's only "royal spouse" (though not his queen, since Moslem custom bars women from such status): their second child, first son and heir to the troubled throne; in Rabat, Morocco. Name: Sidi Mohammed, after Hassan's father, the late Mohammed...
...Hassan had some alternatives, none of them very pleasant: he could make his own coalition with one of the opposition parties, a solution difficult to achieve without losing royal face. Or he could declare a "recount" of votes and rig the results, a course repugnant to the idealistic monarch. Using the constitution he drafted last year, Hassan could even dissolve the House and forget about the democracy he had promised the nation. Wrestling with his dilemma, the King got little sympathy from the opposition. Jeered National Union Leader Abderrakim Benabid...