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Mohammed's eldest son was invested as the new king, Hassan II, three days later. Wearing a red fez and a white djellaball in place of his customary sharp, Western-style clothes, he pledged himself to carry on his father's policies in reigning over the nearly 12 million people of his California-sized kingdom...
...Gallon Hat. Only a few months ago, Hassan complained impatiently to a friend: "Here I am, 31, and I haven't ruled yet." Last week the unanswered question was how Hassan would rule. His father was a benevolent autocrat who had authorized a "consultative" assembly in 1956 but had never permitted national elections. He chose his own Premiers, who were responsible only to him. But he was hailed as the man who'se stubborn resistance wrested Moroccan independence from the French, widely admired as a de voted family man, revered by the devout as the spiritual head...
...Hassan does not inherit the instinctive respect his father commanded. The slim, doe-eyed young king has a well-developed taste for fast cars, fleet horses and rapid starlets. Hassan was often in the company of pretty. 28-year-old French Actress Etchika Choureau, who, for three years, lived across the street from him in fashionable Souissi, a suburb of Rabat. But Etchika has returned to Paris. One of his close friends last year was U.S. Navy Lieut. Commander Leon Blair, a brash, talkative Texan and former public relations officer at the U.S. naval base at Kenitra. Blair shipped...
...Hassan had already shown considerable skill at political infighting. Power lies with the army, and Hassan not only became Chief of Staff but doubled the army's size; its 30,000 men became known as "Hassan's boys." Next he took over the modernized, radio-equipped forces of the Surete Nationale, and then wangled control of the 21,000-man rural police from the Interior Minister. When dissident tribesmen revolted in the Rif mountains. Hassan crushed them...
...Parade. The big cities quickly went into opposition. Socialists, trade unions and students railed against unemployment, grinding poverty, and the government's inability to provide decent housing in place of the fetid bidonvilles (shanty towns) surrounding Rabat, Casablanca and Port Lyautey. Hassan was accused of using the army for strike breaking, of being pro-French...