Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Charles Aznavour is a Parisian, he is Armenian by blood, and his keening laments have echoes of the Middle East in them. Their deepest roots are not in the Paris streets but in the tavernas of Greece, the souks of Morocco and the wailing wall of Jerusalem. Aznavour has the power to affect an audience the way he does because he sings of a betrayal beyond love, something unutterably sad at the heart of things, the treacherous, tragic nature of life itself...
Born. To King Hassan II, 36, autocratic ruler of trouble-plagued Morocco; and Lalla Latifa, 21, daughter of a Berber tribal chieftain: their third child, second daughter; in Rabat...
President Abdul Salem Aref had two reasons to be grateful last week. Not only could he thank his brother, Abdul Rahman, for putting down an attempted coup during his absence in Morocco (TIME, Sept. 24). He now basked in the blessing of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who assured Baghdad's boss that he had no connection whatsoever with the wily pro-Nasser rebels who sparked the revolt...
Private Bickering. If Bourguiba's memo was a devastating blast at Nasser, he was not the only critic. At the opening meeting of the Arab League, the conference host himself, Morocco's King Hassan II, repeated Bourguiba's themes but in milder terms. As conference chairman, Nasser weathered the storm with considerable aplomb, pointing out that the conferees would get nowhere if they limited themselves to diatribes. Then he cleared the hall of all but the twelve heads of state so that the Arab leaders could bicker on in privacy...
...music teacher. It all seems pointless. Maybe abroad? "Rubbing your backside with a colored scarf and squirting wine out of goatskins?" Hopefully he hops off to Spain, moves into a dingy pensión, sits around in cafés with the local American beatniks, even goes off to Morocco for awhile to see if marijuana is the answer. And slowly he discovers what all sensible people know: that all the world over, hips are duller than squares. In the end he returns to the suburbs, his wife returns to him, and they both settle down resignedly to cultivate...