Word: morocco
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...Egypt, Syria and Morocco have joined the gulf countries in sending troops to Saudi Arabia. If King Fahd asks us for more troops, I am prepared to send them immediately...
...potential anti-American outrage in the Arab world if war comes is a source of fierce debate. Western and some Middle Eastern analysts point to the success the U.S. has had so far in isolating Iraq. Anti- American demonstrations have occurred in six Arab states, but Egypt, Syria and Morocco have sent troops to help the U.S. and its European allies confront Saddam. Optimistic analysts expect that, at least if war comes as a result of a clear Iraqi provocation and the U.S. wins quickly, the Arab world will go with the winner and see Saddam Hussein as a blusterer...
Both Morrow and Hamad approached the story well briefed. Hamad, who studied law at Damascus University, has worked for Arab newspapers in Morocco, Lebanon and Jordan, and was a free-lance journalist in Jerusalem before joining TIME's bureau there in 1982. Morrow, who is based in New York City, has visited Israel six times in the past 2 1/2 years. He confesses to painfully divided sympathies: "The Israelis and the Palestinians," he says, "are a kind of moral-political double exposure, two universes set down in the same place...
Zorah has many descendants in the artist's mature work, and it is evident that in Morocco Matisse's basic idea of the artist-model relationship crystallized. He began to envision the studio as a kind of harem, where the static and endlessly compliant figure submitted again and again to the pasha- like gaze of her observer...
...left foreground melons, as some think, or the backsides of Muslims praying to Mecca? -- combine in a pictorial structure of wonderful explicitness and rigor. One sees in the work painters who would not be born for another 20 or 30 years: Frank Stella, Sean Scully. Clearly, though Matisse left Morocco, Morocco never left...