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SLOWLY, the Moroccan television cameras panned across a parade ground of the Moulay Ismail military barracks near Rabat. The scene was chilling: ten tall stakes driven into the ground at intervals, firing squads at the ready, and detachments of the Moroccan armed forces on hand as witnesses. Ten ranking officers-four generals, five colonels and a commandant-marched into view. Each was tied to a stake, each had his epaulets and insignia ripped from his uniform. Just before the firing squads triggered their lethal volleys, home screens were deliberately blacked out. There were only sounds: the condemned men shouting "Yaish...
...Hassan forces, under Interior Minister General Mohammed Oufkir, quickly rallied. A gaunt, laconic Berber from the Atlas Mountains, Oufkir has been unswervingly loyal to Hassan. Four years ago, after the Moroccan leftist Mehdi Ben Barka disappeared in France, the De Gaulle government tried and convicted Oufkir in absentia for murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment...
...meatballs to the warehouse workers since the 1870s. It shuts on the stroke of 9, leaving Prince Street (on Saturday nights) to the beery wassailing of the Daughters of Bilitis, a militant lesbian organization quartered in a loft near by. There are no boutiques, no sleazy head shops hustling Moroccan love beads made in Jersey City to tourists from Duluth, no taxis, no clubs. For the casual visitor, the most baffling thing about the loft district is that it does not have a "scene" at all; nothing apparently exists behind its nobly looming iron facades except art and cotton waste...
...Moscow last week, a spotless, modernistic fish market opened on Komsomolsky Prospekt, enabling the average Soviet citizen to buy fresh caviar for the first time in recent years. Across from Moscow's city hall, an Italian-built, self-service supermarket went into operation, offering Bulgarian chickens, Spanish oranges, Moroccan sardines. Established shops blossomed with chinaware, meat grinders, bath towels and other goods that have long been scarce...
...Saks Fifth Avenue, which had a particularly hot run on monks' capes. In Los Angeles, where even the ladies who sell maps to movie stars' homes have been cloaked up for years, boutiques are having trouble keeping capes in stock. A favorite is St. Laurent's Moroccan wool version, already snapped up by Jennifer Jones. The farther-out Reva's Fashions boutique, where Joanne Woodward picked up her reversible Guinevere cloak, has a bestseller in matte jersey, its turban hood framed in ostrich or turkey feathers. Reva's also stocks a show-stopping full-length...