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When he feels the need to meditate, King Hassan goes to the mountains. He was there last week, at Ifrane, in a grey stone palace surrounded by ilex trees, where he could picnic with friends beside a brook or cast March brown flies to the rainbow trout flashing in the clear water...
What was bothering Hassan was the state of the nation, which was dreadful. Business was stagnant. Half the Moroccan work force was underemployed, and one man in ten had no work at all. In the largest city, Casablanca, student mobs last March battled police and soldiers and ran up a death toll of 200. Foreign reserves were dangerously low, while inflation soared, and crates of furniture clogged the docksides as some 40,000 exasperated foreigners prepared to leave for good. In Parliament, half a dozen political parties bickered endlessly-in two years of debating, the House of Representatives has managed...
...last Hassan came down from the mountains and sat at a mahogany desk in his Rabat palace to announce his decision over a nationwide broadcast. "The country cries out for a strong, stable government," he declared, proclaiming an end-or at least suspension-to Morocco's unique two-year experiment in democracy. With that, Hassan sent the police around to lock the doors of Parliament, then fired the fumbling coalition government of Preimer Ahmed Bahnini...
They don't. For nearly two years their troops have been skirmishing intermittently for a 500-mile strip of land which was once considered Moroccan, but was handed over to Algeria by the French when they controlled the area. In addition, militant Socialist Ben Bella regards Hassan as a feudal tyrant and has been training guerrillas and encouraging rebellion against...
...head off a threatened boycott of moderate leaders that could ruin next month's Afro-Asian Summit Conference in Algiers, Ben Bella badly needs to change his image as an agent of subversion and revolution. How better to do so than by appearing friendly to his good neighbor Hassan, who is influential among the moderates of both...