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...minutes last week Morocco's King Hassan II and Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella sat on the balcony of a seafront villa and pretended they liked each other...
...fresh array of Soviet-made tanks, heavy artillery and jet planes was massed in the north, where the deposed Imam Badr makes his headquarters in a cave near the Saudi Arabian border. Republican President Abdullah Sallal fired his moderate Premier and gave Yemen's tough General Hassan Amri a mandate to take charge...
Regal Candor. Fortunately for Hassan, neither of the nation's two major leftist opposition groups has yet taken overt advantage of the riots. The Union Marocaine du Travail, Morocco's socialist, urban-intellectual labor union, staged an 18-hour sympathy strike for the rioters. But discipline was poor-largely because the U.M.T. did not know what the riots were all about. And the Union Nationale des Forces Populaires, which holds nearly a fifth of the seats in the National Assembly, was equally befuddled. Had the two combined forces, Hassan might have been in real trouble...
...year-old monarch still has the wholehearted support of the countryside. After all, Hassan is the deified leader of a deeply religious nationalism, and nearly 75% of all Moroccans are country folk who revere both royalty and Allah. Confident of rural support, Hassan last week dropped earlier government charges that the riots had been provoked by "foreign agitators" (translated Ahmed ben Bella) and in a radio broadcast couched in peasant Arabic, focused the blame on "three disappointed elements" in Moroccan society: the students, the unemployed and the "malcontents." He announced no spectacular solution for Morocco's plight, only demanded...
...Jordan's plucky King Hussein, 29, ignored his tantrum-prone younger brother Mohammed, 24, to bestow the title of Crown Prince on Prince Hassan, a gifted Harrow graduate who is already enrolled at Oxford at the age of 17. By so doing, Hussein took the crown rights from his own infant son, three-year-old Prince Abdullah. He feared Jordanians would reject Abdullah as King because the child's mother, Princess Muna (formerly Toni Gardner), was a British commoner. After the decision was announced, Princess Muna flew abruptly to Britain for a "medical checkup," taking Abdullah...