Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President Reagan also had the region's most intractable problem on his mind last week. Three days after his meeting with Gemayel, he received a seven-member Arab delegation, led by King Hassan II of Morocco. The group had been appointed by the Arab summit conference that met at Fez, Morocco, last month to explore Reagan's plan to solve the Palestinian problem by linking the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to Jordan. The Arabs at Fez had come closer than ever before to a recognition of Israel's right to exist...
...Morocco Moles have announced that 1983 will be a rebuilding year...
...groups constituting the P.L.O. had blasted the Jordanian federation idea as a product of "American schemes" and "reactionary Arab regimes." Three of those groups disavowed that statement, however, and Arafat's leadership did not appear to be seriously threatened. Arab moderates like Saudi Arabia and Morocco, moreover, were quietly encouraging the Jordanian-Palestinian relationship...
...friends approached Vance and Brzezinski repeatedly and on occasion appealed directly to me. They had an ally in Zbig, but could not convince me or Cy. Each time, we explained the potential danger to those Americans still in Iran, emphasizing that the Shah had been living comfortably in Morocco, the Bahamas and now Mexico. Each time, they went away partially mollified, only to return again. Some were merely representing the Shah's interests, while others, like Zbig, thought we must show our strength and loyalty to an old friend even if it meant personal danger to a group...
...pitch. As quietly as possible, we continued to urge the several thousand Americans remaining in Iran to leave. Before and immediately after the Shah's departure from Iran, we had left open our invitation for him to come to the U.S., but he had decided to stay in Morocco. Now we began to hear that King Hassan wanted him to leave. On March 15, King Hassan requested that we accept the Shah. Primarily because of the intense hatred now built up in Iran among the mobs who controlled the country and the vulnerability of the many Americans still there...