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...Hassan had a lot coming with him to the U.S., he also had a lot going for him. Once a playboy whose chief pursuits were sports cars and sporting girls, the young monarch, now 37, has changed many of his ways since he inherited the throne in 1961. Washington considers him not only a friend but an energetic, intelligent and responsible ruler-a potentate with potential. Although Morocco is officially nonaligned, Hassan leans unwaveringly toward the West, even gives silent sympathy to the U.S. stand in Viet Nam. More important, his refusal to take part in the Arab boycott against...
...King Hassan II likes to tell his visitors that Morocco is "a rich country where the people are poor." He proved his point last week when he arrived in the U.S. to ask for aid. Accompanying him aboard the Italian liner Raffaello, which had made a special stop in Casablanca to pick him up, was a 136-member party that included five princes, two princesses, nine Cabinet ministers, two generals, nine lance bearers in orange capes, his court physician, a maitre d'hótel, the royal chef, four cooks and a white-jelabbed servant whose only duty...
Camel-Powered. At present, however, Hassan's nation is in trouble. Two successive droughts have brought Morocco, whose economy is still based largely on camel-powered subsistence farming, dangerously close to famine-despite emergency U.S. Food for Peace shipments that last year totaled $33.6 million. An ambitious three-year development plan collapsed when the French cut off $100 million a year in aid, a move caused by Parisian petulance over the kidnaping of exiled Moroccan Leftist Mehdi ben Barka. And the Moroccans fear an invasion from leftist Algeria, with which they have been fighting a minor border war since...
Sympathetic though it may be to Hassan, the U.S. is hesitant to grant him its all-out support. Washington readily agreed to send Morocco an extra 500,000 tons of wheat, and promised Hassan $15 million in military aid to protect his borders. But it is not about to supplant French aid to Hassan's development plans, if for no other reason than the realization that the U.S. can never replace France as Morocco's Western mentor...
...speed at which the King pulls away is an indication of the importance a man carries at court. (The method is, at any rate, simpler than many signals of favor and disfavor given at Communist courts or even in democratic presidential mansions.) Last year Morocco's King Hassan dissolved Parliament and has been running the country singlehanded ever since. Critics mutter about his highhandedness as well as his high living, which includes ten palaces, plus fleets of airplanes and automobiles-including several curtained buses for ladies of the harem. But even his critics agree that he is worshiped...