Word: moroccans
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...within its Jewish population. Originally the country was settled primarily by Jewish immigrants from Europe, but recent immigration has come increasingly from Morocco and Oriental countries with social, cultural, economic, and educational backgrounds substantially different from the highly-developed and professionalized Jewish communities of Europe. According to Eisenstadt, these Moroccan and Oriental Jews constitute 50 per cent of the Jewish population of Israel (depending on how the children are counted...
SHOWTIME (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). British Comedian Dave Allen hosts an international variety hour. Guests include U.S. Comedian Frank Fontaine, British Vocalist Dusty Springfield and Comedian Max Wall, a Moroccan balancing act, Irish dancers and an Australian yodeler...
...pieces that make up Paul Bowles's first collection of stories in 17 years read like obituaries of the soul. His characters, robbed of purpose, their spirits rubbed flat, move zombielike through exquisitely desolate landscapes -Moroccan ghettos, Algerian deserts, New York subway tunnels. Displaced in the present, they have vague pasts and menacing futures; sighing despair, they search for something unnameable...
...title story, a Swiss schoolmistress in Algeria befriends a Moslem youth and tries her civilizing Christianity on him; he destroys her Christmas creche and tricks her into helping him join the F.L.N. In The Hours After Noon, a genteel French lecher, visiting an archaeological camp, gestures toward a Moroccan girl and ends up behind a boulder with a wire around his neck. In The Garden, a wife puts a potion in her husband's food because she thinks he has been hiding treasure in the garden; when the poison fails to work, the whole town combines to finish...
...Barka would not go away that easily. The French press and public kept it alive with muckraking relish. Eventually the flics collared two of their own vice-squad men, one part-time informer for the French and Moroccan secret services, one ranking French secret-service official, one Moroccan cop and one journalist who was also a police informer. They also implicated four French underworld types they could not lay their hands on and Moroccan Interior Minister Mohamed Oufkir and his deputy, Ahmed Dlimi, who were both safe at home...