Word: lalla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ministries of Interior, Agriculture and Economics. But the King saw to it that a number of middle-roaders were included in the Cabinet, and that his own nominee became Defense Minister. The post went to 36-year-old Mohammed Aoud, who is reportedly destined to marry Princess Lalla Aisha (TIME, Nov. 11, 1957), thus keeping the army in the family...
...especially on the Arab Algerians of the cities. The Kabyles' history is old and militant: under King Jugurtha, they held off the might of ancient Rome for five bloody years; they battled the Arab and Turkish invaders of North Africa; led by a "Joan of Arc" called Lalla Fatma, they fought the conquering French longer than any other tribe in Algeria. Kabyles in the tens of thousands served in the French army in both world wars, and their fighters are considered the most spirited of the rebel troops...
...days, almost had reason to regret his wanderlust, so rapidly was he whisked hither and yon. At Disneyland, the King successfully took the throttle of the locomotive that draws a miniature 1890-style train around the park. While in Texas, Mohammed decided to summon his four daughters-Lalla Aisha, 27, (TIME, Nov. 11), Lalla Malika, 20, Lalla Nuzha, 17, and little Lalla Amina, 4-from Rabat, to share with them the last six days of his whirlwind visit. He sped on to San Francisco for two days, then hopped to Omaha, where he arrived in freezing weather, later was escorted...
Jasmine & Satin. In the Moroccan capital of Rabat last week, a strapping black African sentry, resplendent in scarlet uniform, white puttees and black-tasseled bicorn, paced slowly back and forth in front of the brass-studded door that leads into Princess Lalla (Lady) Aisha's green-tiled villa. In the courtyard, a slender fountain tinkled in a garden dominated by four dome-shaped hibiscus bushes; from delicately wrought arbors came the sweet, heavy-bodied scent of flowering blue jasmine...
...role from the start as a complement to his ,own political struggle. The Sultan placed his children's education in the hands of capable private French teachers. "I want you to treat my children like other children," the Sultan said. "Call the girls by their title (i.e., Lalla), but punish them if their work is bad." The teachers took the Sultan at his word. If marks were low, the Sultan took away privileges such as attendance at palace movies, sometimes administered deserved slaps to the royal bottoms. Like her brothers and sisters, Aisha was haughty, impish and possessed with...