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...prison memoir, Malika Oufkir's story opens sweetly, as if her life were a fairy tale in reverse. She is a rebellious 5-year-old in frilly dresses when she is adopted by King Mohammed V to become a favorite daughter's perpetual playmate. For the next 11 years, until well after King Hassan II succeeds to the throne, she lives the incredible life of a Moroccan princess. Beautiful palaces become her playgrounds; her every wish is a servant's command. She rides horseback with royalty, giggles through Cabinet meetings and travels on state visits. She greets so many foreign...
...somewhat difficult guest. Neighbors complained about all-night parties and loudspeakers blasting out hard rock; the puritanical regime disapproved of the hashish smoking by some members of Cleaver's 15-member entourage, and were especially dismayed when Cleaver took up with a teen-age Arab girl called Malika while his wife Kathleen was away...
...King died last February without redeeming his daughter's pledge. It was up to the new King, Aisha's 32-year-old brother Hassan II, to see her married. Hassan II acted swiftly. He sent word that it was his pleasure for Aisha and her two sisters, Malika, 28, and Fatima Zorah, 32, to marry expeditiously; the choice of husbands was left to them. Each woman promptly said yes to a suitor. Malika, who runs the Red Crescent Society (Moslem equivalent of the Red Cross), became engaged to Rabat's smooth Ambassador to France, Mohammed ben Abdallah...
Engaged. Princess Lalla Aisha, 30, Morocco's great female emancipator (TIME cover, Nov. 11, 1957 ), sister of King Hassan II; and Hassan Al Yakoubi, 26, prosperous landowner; at the royal palace in Rabat, in a double ceremony that saw her sleek, similarly Westernized sister, Princess Lalla Malika, 23, betrothed to Mohammed Cherkaoui, 40, Morocco's ambassador-designate to France...
...Manhattan for the windup of their genial father's U.S. visit, Morocco's veilless Princesses Aisha (TIME, Nov. n), Malika and Nuzha met local newsfolk, acquitted themselves well through French and Arabic interpreters. Their little sister Amina, 4. skipped the conference in favor of a nap. A newshen inquired: "Is the Princess Aisha engaged?" Ignoring her linguistic aides, Aisha snapped a prompt no in English. Then someone inquired whether dynamic Feminist Aisha is regarded by Moroccan women as her country's own Joan of Arc. "Certainly not!" she replied, eyes twinkling. "Wasn't she known...