Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Renovating Islam. Potentially, the most fruitful ground for discussion, ecumenists suggest, is not theology but the search for common religious solutions to pressing worldly problems. A notable advocate of this approach is the Benedictine monastery of Toumliline, in Morocco's Middle Atlas mountains, which for eleven years has sponsored annual meetings of Moslem and Christian thinkers from dozens of countries. The sessions deal broadly and impartially with major contemporary themes, such as the problems of youth and cities. Purpose of the meetings is to encourage Islam to face these issues from the perspective of its own traditions. Says...
...almost byzantine negotiations. For as soon as Spanish geologists found the rich phosphate vein back in 1963, Generalissimo Franco's ministers forbade publication of any hint of the discovery. They had good reason for their reticence. The political situation in northern Africa has long been touchy: both Morocco and Mauritania claim the Spanish Sahara. Occasionally, they have gone so far as to threaten to back up their claims with force. Moreover, Spain has been under mounting pressure in the U.N. to give up its African possessions. So there was little point in making the Sahara suddenly sound attractive...
...meals) and gaze in perfect safety at leopards that slink out of the night to feed on baited venison beneath a battery of floodlights. In the "other Africa"-to the north-the scenes and the accommodations are considerably different. Algeria has fallen far behind in tourist facilities. But in Morocco, there are hundreds of miles of beaches in the Blue Country, where the Sahara Desert touches the Atlantic and the sun shines at least 300 days a year. The capital city of Rabat now has a luxurious new Hilton Hotel (up to $18 a day), a swinging night life...
...soon as he learned of the story, Israeli Minister of Justice Jacob Shapiro ordered all copies of Bui confiscated and the two editors thrown in jail-nominally for espionage, but actually because Premier Levi Eshkol feared mention of any link between Arab Morocco and Israel. Eshkol had privately told a group of editors, not including Bui's, that Israel had helped organize the Moroccan secret service in return for fair treatment of Moroccan Jews. Later, Eshkol said, the Moroccans had asked Israel to help kidnap Ben Barka, but Israel had refused to commit itself. Even so, if word...
...Spain's Jews and Protestants, the bill is nonetheless an important advance. Not that they have done badly, despite official obstacles. Unwilling to risk living in Morocco after it won independence from France in 1956, some 5,500 Jews emigrated to Spain, live quietly as members of the business and professional class. Spain's Protestants are largely native-born Spaniards of working-class, urban background whose ancestors picked up the faith by way of foreign missionaries allowed in Spain for a few years in the late 19th century. Aggressive and evangelical, Spain's Protestants have increased...