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French police began a nationwide search, for Ben Barka was no routine case. The founder of Morocco's leftist National Union Party, he has twice within the past two years been sentenced to death in absentia for plotting to overthrow King Hassan II. Such notoriety naturally led to speculation that political skulduggery might be involved...
Born. To King Hassan II, 36, autocratic ruler of trouble-plagued Morocco; and Lalla Latifa, 21, daughter of a Berber tribal chieftain: their third child, second daughter; in Rabat...
Private Bickering. If Bourguiba's memo was a devastating blast at Nasser, he was not the only critic. At the opening meeting of the Arab League, the conference host himself, Morocco's King Hassan II, repeated Bourguiba's themes but in milder terms. As conference chairman, Nasser weathered the storm with considerable aplomb, pointing out that the conferees would get nowhere if they limited themselves to diatribes. Then he cleared the hall of all but the twelve heads of state so that the Arab leaders could bicker on in privacy...
...Next day Hassan formed a new Cabinet of 20 ministers with himself as Premier and pledged "resolute action" and "radical change." Though notably lacking in austerity himself, Hassan was prepared to impose it upon the nation, as well as a new budget and a new three-year plan. He promised new national elections and a return to "efficient parliamentary life"-some time also in the future...
...King Hassan need do now is create national unity, stability and prosperity, something that has eluded every government since Morocco won its independence from France nine years...