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...urge the several thousand Americans remaining in Iran to leave. Before and immediately after the Shah's departure from Iran, we had left open our invitation for him to come to the U.S., but he had decided to stay in Morocco. Now we began to hear that King Hassan wanted him to leave. On March 15, King Hassan requested that we accept the Shah. Primarily because of the intense hatred now built up in Iran among the mobs who controlled the country and the vulnerability of the many Americans still there, I decided that it would be better...
Mother had recently been to Morocco. She said she smelled all the 21 types of perfume in the palace dressing room where she stayed. King Hassan offered to give her some perfume, and she said, "No." She laughed and said, "You damn foreigners are all alike." He laughed also and gave her a kiss. I doubt that the King's been called a "damn foreigner" before, and I don't know anyone else who could get away with...
...players seem to fit the usual classifications. There's an assassin (Keith Cooper), an animal (Carey), a boot (Joe Kanecht), and a hoss (Hassan Riffat). They dress in the traditional fashion, too Bandages, crutches, stitches, broken noses and black eyes are de rigueur Florence Nightingale would feel right at home attending to the players over the post-practice...
...Gemayel's murder, the Israeli occupation of West Beirut and the massacre, however, are nasty indeed. They strengthen doubts among the Arabs about the ability of the U.S. to get Israel to make any concession whatsoever, and thus redouble Arab hesitancy about bargaining. Says Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ah of Egypt, the only Arab state that has diplomatic relations with Israel: "You cannot start negotiations when the Israelis are occupying an Arab capital." Still, the swift, outraged worldwide reaction to the massacre might pressure Israel into pulling out of Beirut sooner than it had wished...
What was most notable about the plan, which Morocco's King Hassan II described as a first step toward reaching a state of "nonbelligerency" with Israel, was that it did not denounce the Reagan proposals, and it did not single out the U.S. or Israel for condemnation. Indeed, the resolution did not specifically mention Israel or its right to exist, but the Arabs did say that the United Nations Security Council should guarantee peace among all nations in the region...