Word: hassanal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is a march of 350,000 people, but it is really ideas that are marching," Morocco's King Hassan II told TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager last week in his ocher palace in Marrakech. One of the ideas on the march might well be the old notion that the shortest route to enhanced power is through a neighboring country's land. In his determination to annex the phosphate-rich Spanish colony, King Hassan has ignored an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice that denied Morocco's claim of outright sovereignty over the Sahara. Spain, after...
...Hassan has reason to know. In his 14 years as monarch, he has survived three leftist plots to overthrow him and two military assassination attempts (one at his 42nd birthday party in 1971, when 98 guests were killed, and one a year later, when his official jet was strafed). The autocratic Hassan, who claims descent from the Prophet Mohammed, owes his survival to his skill at playing off one Moroccan faction against the other and rallying support through emotional appeals to the religious fervor of his 17 million subjects. The popular success of the march is a case in point...
Sybaritic Swath. He was going into the Sahara, Hassan explained, "so that my children and grandchildren may take pride in inheriting a real crown and a true scepter." They also stand to inherit Hassan's fortune (estimated at more than $500 million) and his eight palaces, four of them with golf courses designed by Robert Trent Jones. When Hassan dies, he expects to be ensconced in the mausoleum he has had built for himself in Rabat, a $7.5 million structure that looks like a cross between a pagoda and the Taj Mahal. Not bad for a onetime playboy prince...
...whom carried copies of the Koran along with soup bowls, spoons and bottle openers-from the oasis of Ksar-es-Souk. "Go then under divine protection," he said, "helped by your unshakable faith, your true patriotism and your total devotion to the guide of your victorious march, King Hassan...
...referendum. Madrid asked the U.N. Security Council to act to halt what it called the Moroccan invasion; the Security Council asked for moderation on all sides. At the same time, Madrid sent a special envoy, José Solis Ruiz, head of the National Movement, to Marrakech to talk to Hassan. Solis and the King are old friends, and the Spaniard said that their discussions were conducted in "an atmosphere of extraordinary friendliness." The Moroccan government said, however, that Hassan would call off the march only if Spain promised to negotiate with Morocco over the Sahara...