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...likes to start slowly with an easygoing topical monologue, maybe kidding the Mets ("The only team that has to fight back from a three-run lead"), or poking fun at the New York World's Fair's doldrums ("They've got a belly dancer at the Moroccan Pavilion now, but she has a cobweb in her navel"), or satirizing TV ("The television business is tough, as I was saying just the other day to my waiter, Jim Aubrey...
They don't. For nearly two years their troops have been skirmishing intermittently for a 500-mile strip of land which was once considered Moroccan, but was handed over to Algeria by the French when they controlled the area. In addition, militant Socialist Ben Bella regards Hassan as a feudal tyrant and has been training guerrillas and encouraging rebellion against...
...meeting took place in the Moroccan resort town of Saïdia, which lies just across the River Kiss from Algeria. Under such circumstances, it could hardly have failed. A mellow joint communiqué announced that the two old pals had discussed Algerian-Moroccan relations and had arrived at "identical views." To commemorate their new-found fraternity, in fact, they decided to build a bridge across the Kiss. Its name will be Encounter Bridge...
...Ahmed, 39, a French-trained lawyer, was captured last October after leading an underground movement aimed at toppling the government of President Ahmed ben Bella, his onetime comrade in arms in the F.L.N. struggle against the French. The state demanded the death sentence, and the 15 defense lawyers-Algerian, Moroccan, French and Swiss-finally quit the courtroom in protest at the methods of the tribunal, especially the sudden calling of defense witnesses at 1 a.m. Naturally, none appeared...
...year-old monarch still has the wholehearted support of the countryside. After all, Hassan is the deified leader of a deeply religious nationalism, and nearly 75% of all Moroccans are country folk who revere both royalty and Allah. Confident of rural support, Hassan last week dropped earlier government charges that the riots had been provoked by "foreign agitators" (translated Ahmed ben Bella) and in a radio broadcast couched in peasant Arabic, focused the blame on "three disappointed elements" in Moroccan society: the students, the unemployed and the "malcontents." He announced no spectacular solution for Morocco's plight, only demanded...