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...WEANED on the horrors of Vietnam, sickened by the jingoism of Grenada, appalled by the silence of the Panama invasion. There were "proxy wars"--Nicaragua, El Salvador, Angola, Afghanistan, Morocco, Mozambique. And times when the U.S. did nothing in Haiti and Burma, Somalia and Liberia...
When bus drivers in Fez joined a nationwide general strike called by Morocco's two major labor unions earlier this month, government officials thought they had a simple remedy: they put soldiers and police officers behind the wheel...
Last week government officials attempted to calm emotions with a promise of unspecified increases in wages and improved social benefits. Morocco's ills, however, are not easily fixed. Under an austerity program drawn up by the badly indebted country, only 15,210 new jobs will be created next year -- meager pickings for the 350,000 young Moroccans who will enter the labor market...
...drummed up financial aid in two forms. One is assistance from economic powers to nations that have incurred heavy losses by joining the embargo against Iraq -- primarily Egypt, Turkey and Jordan but also Syria, Morocco, Algeria and Poland. As of Nov. 30, according to Washington, allies had pledged $13.4 billion to this cause and so far actually paid $6 billion. America has also sought cash and in-kind contributions to defray U.S. military expenses by allied payments into a special Defense Cooperation account. In a manner befitting a computer age, no cash or even paper changes hands; countries merely make...
...filling with the troops and equipment of 11 Arab and Islamic armies committed to the liberation of Kuwait. On paper they make up a formidable military force: 60,000 Saudis, 10,000 men of the other gulf states, armored divisions from Egypt and Syria, infantry regiments from Bangladesh, Morocco and Pakistan. By joining publicly with the U.S. and its European allies, they have already made their most important contribution by proving that the confrontation with Iraq is not a neocolonial attack on the Arab nation. But if a war begins, the Islamic armies could vastly complicate problems of command...