Word: moroccans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrates this stingingly funny picaresque, is in Morocco to write the script of an Arab-backed movie biography of Muhammad, a "couscous Western," as the director calls it. Along the way, Burt becomes entangled with the producer's secretary-mistress, a Palestinian terrorist, and is kidnaped by Moroccan radicals who rashly expect his employers to pay $1 million in ransom. Burt, however, not only knows his "onions on Islam," he is a part-time spook and a full-time survivor who proves devilishly resourceful...
...himself by what he does and not by what he is. And what he does is always tainted by easy accommodation and the habit of incessant compromise. He moves from trading slaves out of Charleston, S.C., and shipping pagan idols to China to reigning as a prophet in the Moroccan desert, finally ending up crowned "the Emperor of Self in a Cairo mad house, with a wreath of straw...
...negative reaction; they hope that Arab interest in the plan as the basis for negotiations, and internal debate within Israel will eventually soften Begin's hard-line stand. There was little public comment from Arab leaders, most of whom will meet at a summit this week in the Moroccan city of Fez. The Arabs, who have formally designated the P.L.O. as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, can hardly endorse Reagan's Jordanian option without much painful soul searching...
...series of tactical moves around Beirut as part of the Israelis' continuing effort to strengthen their military positions. Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich, who had generally supported Sharon in the past, immediately declared that the request was out of the question. Taking up the argument, the Moroccan-born David Levy, another Deputy Prime Minister, who has been a consistent critic of Sharon, declared, "The country is confused. Government decisions are being violated: steps are being taken without government approval. These things are endangering the [Habib] agreement and our relations with...
Washington's aim was to complete an agreement, reached in principle by Secretary of State Alexander Haig during a trip to Marrakesh last February, that would allow the U.S. to use Moroccan military facilities if troops ever have to be ferried to the Persian Gulf in an emergency. The plan was part of Haig's continuing attempt to forge a "strategic consensus" to contain Communist influence in the Middle East. Hassan was amenable to the idea on the basis of an unwritten agreement, though the U.S. was still hoping to talk him into signing a formal statement...