Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Collins Clear-Type Plantin Text RSV Bible, which features "four pages of full-color illustrated helps, a Biblical time chart in color, an entirely new collection of modern full-color photographs, and an eight-page, full-color selection of maps"-all for only $8.50 in the edition with "French Morocco Black Leather semi-overlapping covers, red under gold edges, ribbon marker, boxed." Harper & Row has a children's Bible with 44 pages of new Children's Helps, "the first set of helps that children can use fully and understand easily." Harper also claims its "black watermarked sealskin...
...fratricidal purges in which, says he, "I had to send thousands of comrades to their deaths." He adds coolly: "Some were killed by the French, others by internal strife." ∙ In 1960 Boumedienne was given the task of "forming a national army" in the security of training camps in Morocco and Tunisia. He carefully built and husbanded a crack fighting force equipped with Communist-bloc weapons and indoctrinated with Marxist ideas. "It's the best group that ever was," he brags. He kept his units in fighting trim with diversionary attacks on the French army's fortified defense...
Though an heir would have been even more welcome, the birth of a daughter-his first child-to Morocco's dashing King Hassan II stirred the nation to stentorian rapture last week. Twenty-one gun salutes echoed through Rabat and Casablanca...
Tradition demands that the King of Morocco have at least one wife-he is entitled to four-before he accedes to the throne. Thus loyal Moroccans took it for granted at the time that sportive Bachelor Hassan had quietly been married in the five days between the death of his father, Mohammed V, and his own religious coronation in March 1961. Since it is also customary for royal wives to remain in the background, the marriage was never announced or acknowledged. "If the King has a child," purred a Moroccan diplomat last week, "that is his personal affair." In Rome...
Born. To King Hassan II, 33, monarch of Morocco, and his wife, Latifa, 15, daughter of a prominent Berber family: their first child, a girl; in Rome (see THE WORLD...