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Honor to the Bride, etc. is just what its title is not: brief, deft, racy and funny. Set in the Moroccan city of Meknes, it is a kind of Arab shaggy-dog story that happens to be true...
After sailing for 57 days in a 40-ft. reed raft resembling a basket, Thor Heyerdahl and his seven-man international crew reached the Caribbean island of Barbados, 3,200 miles across the Atlantic from their point of departure on the Moroccan coast. Happy to have demonstrated with Ra II (Ra I was abandoned last year 600 miles from Barbados) that the ancient Egyptians, who sailed such papyrus craft, could have discovered America 40 centuries ago, Heyerdahl proudly noted that his vessel had survived its journey intact. Ra II will eventually be installed in an Oslo museum alongside an earlier...
...young, and they are alienated from the early pioneer and Zionist ideals which current Israeli leaders formulated 50 or more years ago and still represent. In fact, they differ politically from the old-time Zionist leaders still in control of the government, as well as from the newly-arrived Moroccan immigrants...
...smugglers. Says Agent Cusack: "They use methods that would make a professional pusher blush-putting the stuff in the mail or hiding it under the back seat of a car." In Algeciras, Spanish customs officers last year arrested 64 Americans as they stepped off the ferry from Morocco. If Moroccan dope peddlers have not already fingered the Americans in advance, Spanish agents have little trouble picking out probable smugglers. The giveaways: hippy dress ("a long or loose anything"), and talkative over-friendliness...
...monks responded by opening a school for them and the children of French settlers. When the villagers learned that one monk was a doctor, the monastery was besieged with sick calls and a dispensary was opened. Much against their will, the monks were drawn into the complexities of Moroccan politics. One day during the summer of 1954, a group of Arab nationalist prisoners from a nearby detention camp, working on a water main near the monastery, complained of the heat and their thirst. The prior dispatched some monks with mint-flavored tea, a favorite Moroccan drink, for the prisoners. When...