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...films produced or distributed by Columbia Pictures. Egyptian objections to the four-hour movie are not so much that Anwar Sadat is played by a black actor, as some reports have suggested, but that accents are often Pakistani rather than Egyptian; some of the garb worn is found in Morocco, not Egypt; Nasser is shown kissing Sadat's wife, an abominated Westernism. Moreover, to the Egyptians the film seems to tilt inaccurately toward Menachem Begin in awarding credit for the Egyptian-Israeli accords. Nonsense, counters Sadat Producer Daniel Blatt. The real reason for the ban lies in the shifting...
...more likely cause was money, or the lack of it. Morocco has been beset by a series of economic setbacks in the past few years. A severe drought, now in its third year, has seriously impaired agricultural production and rendered useless hydroelectric projects in which the government had invested heavily. As a result, the country is relying on oil imports for 85% of its energy needs, and paying for them with a dollar that has gained more than 40% in value against the dirham since 1981. At the same time, prices on the world market for phosphate, Morocco...
...cope with the crisis, Hassan turned to the International Monetary Fund. Since 1980, Rabat has borrowed more than $700 million. But the IMF demanded that Morocco cut food subsidies and initiate other austerity measures bound to displease the public. Such staples as sugar, flour and cooking oil shot up 67% in price...
...first up-to-date comprehensive study of this exemplary but little-known cuisine. She calls it "a magnificent peasant cookery in the process of being updated . . . modern, honest, yet still close to the earth." An inventive cook and author of two classic books, Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco and Mediterranean Cooking, Wolfert found herself committed to "a passionate long-term enterprise" that took five years to complete...
...thriller co-written by Agatha Christie and Evelyn Waugh. It began three weeks ago when a motorist in a lonely part of Exeter Forest stumbled upon a headless, bullet-ridden, badly decomposed corpse. Police eventually determined that the victim's beige cotton T shirt had been made in Morocco and her pink polyester shorts purchased in San Francisco. Then they received a call from an informed source suggesting that those clothes might belong to California-born Monika Zumsteg Telling, 27, the wife of an affluent member of British high society, Michael Telling, 33. Last week police descended upon...