Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro bandsmen of the royal "Black Guard" beat a tattoo and blared fanfares. Eleven men filed through the palace courtyard, up a marble staircase and into an ornate chamber reeking of incense. There, seated on his gilt and brocaded throne, King Mohammed V last week welcomed the members of Morocco's fourth government in less than three years of independence...
...centuries, on the barren brown mountains that were once a part of Spanish Morocco, the Riffs have lived, a sturdy Berber breed whose way of life was war. Feuding and fighting among themselves, they were seldom united; but Abd el Krim in the 1920s managed to bring them together long enough to drive out the Spaniards. Only after Paris dispatched Marshal Henri-Philippe Pétain to lead 160,000 French troops against him was Abd el Krim defeated in 1926. Taken prisoner, he escaped to Cairo, where since 1947 he has continued to rant, first against the French...
Hilltop Casbah. A couple of months ago the Riffs of Morocco began to complain openly against the King's government in Rabat. They resent the city-bred administrators that Rabat has sent to govern them, claim that non-French-speaking Moroccans have been frozen out, and that government police have used arbitrary methods, including "torture that even the French could not devise." Six weeks ago an organization called the Rif Liberation and Liquidation Movement suddenly came to light, patterned after the hierarchy of the Algerian rebels across the border...
Like many another newborn nation, the Kingdom of Morocco has sadly discovered that independence provides a brief, heady celebration but cures no chronic ailments. Two years after Morocco gained its freedom, its economic and political problems have piled so high that King Mohammed V was prompted only last month to remind his people: "It is not going to rain gold and silver. The seeds of independence will not yield their fruit in a day. Our sons and grandsons will pick them." Less poetically, the King confided to a friend: "The French never gave me half as much trouble...
...seemed to have the authority to halt the bickering inside the Istiqlal; he asked Allal el Fassi, 48, the party's political leader, to become Premier. El Fassi is both a religious mystic and a rabble-rousing extreme nationalist who has led the agitation for a "Greater Morocco," to include large hunks of the French Sahara. He proposed too many leftist Cabinet ministers to suit the King. Last week the King saw little choice but to run the country himself, with a group of "technicians" as ministers. Under pressure from the politicians, the King has joined in demands...