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Late last week the rioting appeared to be over, but the regime of King Hassan II, 54, who has ruled since 1961, was clearly shaken. The protests could not have come at a more inopportune moment: Hassan happened to be host to the 42-nation Islamic Conference summit meeting in Casablanca. Embarrassed and angered, the King went on television early last week and blamed an improbable conspiracy of "professional Marxist, Zionist and Khomeinist" agitators for fomenting the violence in order to discredit the conference...
...cope with the crisis, Hassan turned to the International Monetary Fund. Since 1980, Rabat has borrowed more than $700 million. But the IMF demanded that Morocco cut food subsidies and initiate other austerity measures bound to displease the public. Such staples as sugar, flour and cooking oil shot up 67% in price...
...given their problems, Moroccans are doing a lot of hoping these days-hoping that the dollar will weaken, hoping that the U.S. economic upturn will spread across the Atlantic, hoping that the rains will come. Hassan, meanwhile, continues to hope for a calm without a storm...
...glitches. The Israeli government backed out at the last moment, claiming that one of the Arab participants, Harvard Professor and noted Palestinian Author Walid Khalidi, was a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Khalidi denied it. The Syrians and the Jordanians pointedly ignored each other, and Jordanian Crown Prince Hassan ibn Talal refused to accept direct questions from the unofficial Israeli participants. But nobody walked out, not even when the Israeli scholars were speaking...
Crown Prince Hassan praised the Reagan initiative of last year but criticized the U.S. for "not accompanying the plan with a coherent peace strategy." He urged the U.S. to "squeeze us all a little in the interest of peace" and added that the problem of Palestine, the "root cause" of the continuing Arab-Israeli conflict, "is as far from resolution as it has ever been." Israeli settlement policy on the West Bank was a recurring theme. As Carter put it, "The massive and total commitment of Israel to this unprecedented settlement activity [has] created a new dimension. If Israel moves...