Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moviegoer over the age of 30 has memories of Morocco. Of Humphrey Bogart, explaining his presence in Casablanca: "I came for the waters. I was misinformed." Or Gary Cooper as Beau Geste, with ketchup all over his Foreign Legion tunic, dying bravely in defense of the Late Show and his papier-mâché fort. And there were Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, singing as they set out on the road to Dorothy Lamour...
...spiritual life. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson cabled that the flight "has added a new dimension to our appreciation that this is indeed one world." There were similar messages from U.N. Secretary General U Thant, French President Charles de Gaulle, Premier Eisaku Sato of Japan, King Hassan of Morocco and a host of other world leaders. Even Havana radio contributed to worldwide reaction by presenting lengthy and approving appraisals of Apollo 8's moon mission...
...Ambassador to Paris, where Yost once served as deputy chief of mission. Yost entered the foreign service in 1930 and, after taking a brief recess for some short-story writing and freelance journalism, rose steadily to the coveted rank of career ambassador. He held three ambassadorships (Laos, Syria, Morocco) in the Eisenhower Administration, then became deputy to Adlai Stevenson and Arthur Goldberg at the United Nations. In 1966, he retired to join the Council on Foreign Relations. In a 1964 book, The Age of Triumph and Frustration: Modern Dialogues, one of Yost's imaginary speakers sums up a diplomat...
ISRAEL also has problems within its Jewish population. Originally the country was settled primarily by Jewish immigrants from Europe, but recent immigration has come increasingly from Morocco and Oriental countries with social, cultural, economic, and educational backgrounds substantially different from the highly-developed and professionalized Jewish communities of Europe. According to Eisenstadt, these Moroccan and Oriental Jews constitute 50 per cent of the Jewish population of Israel (depending on how the children are counted...
Washington was sufficiently alarmed to rush White House Adviser Eugene Rostow to Teheran in an unpublicized attempt to cool the angry Shah. Later, King Hassan of Morocco, on visits to Teheran and Riyadh, acted as a conciliator. Reassured about each other's intentions, the Shah and King Feisal began to exchange delegations. Feisal disclaimed any bridge building to Bahrain, and the Shah glossed over the fracas...