Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oppressive heat. Scalding sunlight. Not a whisper of a breeze. The place is a vacation resort near Marrakesh in Morocco, but the guests' garden patio might almost be a military compound under siege. Its protective wall is topped with shards of implanted glass and barbed wire. Palm fronds are silhouettes against an implacably blue sky, and in the distance one hears the eerie, insinuative call of the muezzin, summoning the faithful of Islam to prayer...
...even in the Arab-populated West Bank town of Hebron, Carter felt that Israel had gone too far. Both at the White House and at the State Department, there was a strong desire to lean hard on Israel. A Security Council resolution condemning the settlements, sponsored by Tunisia and Morocco, seemed a proper means of stepping up U.S. pressure...
After publishing several neoclassical tracts and receiving tenure in 1967, Marglin left again for India. While there, he fell in love with and later married a French woman raised in Morocco who sensitized him to the wealth of non-Western cultures. he explains. At the same time the student uprisings that brought Paris to a near-standstill in 1968 helped to dispel Marglin's belief in the immutability of the capitalist order. Marglin returned to Harvard no longer believing that the liberal position made sense...
...United Nations any more, but that does not mean that Andrew Young has slowed his pace or lost his taste for speaking his mind. This time he was in the Western Sahara with leaders of the Polisario Front, an independence movement that seeks to wrest the land away from Morocco. Washington is sympathetic to King Hassan II, so Young's hosts were happy to lay on the hospitality in a desert town and argue their side. The give-and-take got Andy thinking about the folks back home. "In most Government positions you spend your time dealing with cautious...
This brings me to the other course of developments through which the Middle East is moving. In 1977, when Sadat embarked on his dramatic trip to Jerusalem, the whole area was still greatly under American influence. This was the case in Saudi Arabia, in Iran, in the Sudan, Morocco and Jordan. Today, however, the situation is different. The Shah of Iran left his country, and Iran is undergoing a radical, anti-Western, anti-American revolution, with instability as its most immediate characteristic. Whatever stability and normalization the oil market regained in the years between 1975 and 1978 has disappeared, with...