Word: mehdi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Casablanca movie house to announce the formation of a new political party, the National Union of Popular Forces. It was the most important political development in Morocco since the North African kingdom got its independence 3½ years ago, and it made its leader, 39-year-old Mehdi ben Barka, the most important man in Morocco next to King Mohammed V and the monarchy's unquestioned challenger...
...Watched." Diminutive (5 ft.) Mehdi ben Barka has been in rebellion against one thing or another since early youth. A brilliant mathematics student, he was tabbed at 14 by one of his teachers as "first in his class; mixes with nationalists: to be watched." The youngest man to sign the Istiqlal independence manifesto of 1944, Ben Barka showed such talent at organizing and publicizing Morocco's fight for independence that nationalist French newsmen dubbed him "the Moroccan Goebbels...
...island is being changed." Ghana, which modeled its civil-service training on Puerto Rico's, was getting advice on industrialization from two of the island's experts. Prabha Prachasubhaniti of Bangkok Technical Institute copied in his school a workshop setup he had seen in Puerto Rico. Mehdi ben Barka, president of Morocco's Consultative Assembly, took inspiration for his development program (TIME, Sept. 9) from a look at the island last fall...
Unity Road is a sensible vision conceived by Mehdi ben Barka. bright-eyed young (37) president of Morocco's Consultative Assembly. Brought to the U.S. by the State Department last March to see whatever he wanted, Ben Barka did not succumb to the common delusion that the U.S. is a chrome-spun nation so rich that its experience can have no relevance to the problems of other peoples. He took a look at Manhattan and Washington. D.C., but was more particularly interested in Arizona's irrigated cotton fields and in Puerto Rico's "Operation Bootstrap," the imaginative...
...Istiqlal Leader Mehdi ben Barka insisted that the Istiqlal had been planning the coup for weeks as part of its policy of agrarian reform and "researching the origin of wealth acquired by traitors." Though the Sultan had temporarily managed to claim leadership of the move, the ominous fact was that the Istiqlal had not bothered to let the Sultan know its plans -indicating a split between the Istiqlal's zealous progressives and the Sultan's slower modernism...