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...rough Rif country, and new tourist hotels along the coast. More important, Hassan has pushed his country toward democracy, with free elections and a freewheeling legislature. Is all this really enough? No, suggested the mobs that swept down the labyrinthine alleys of Casablanca with the violence of the harmattan, Morocco's fierce desert wind...
Urban Impatience. The riots were triggered by a government edict that would have shunted failing students over 17 into technical curriculums. Only 300 of Morocco's 62,000 high school students were affected, but the innocuous announcement was enough to touch off a powder keg of underlying discontent. Unfortunately, Moroccans have plenty to be discontented about...
With the population only 20% literate, a per-capita annual income of $160 and an average life expectancy of 40 years, Morocco is scarcely more advanced than many parts of black Africa. French, U.S., West German and Italian money is providing Morocco with everything from dyeing and shoemaking plants to Caravelle jetliners to chemical, electrical and arms factories. Despite outside help, a sharp economic decline over the past eight months has cost 100,000 Casablancans their jobs, bringing the city's total unemployment up to 400,000. That brought the total of jobless Moroccans to nearly...
More than half the population is under 20 and eager for schooling. But Morocco's $85 million annual education budget is not nearly enough to bring scholarship to so vast and desperate a student body. As a result, students and labor leaders, intellectuals and urban workers have grown increasingly impatient with Hassan's reluctant moderation and economies-and increasingly sympathetic with the instant socialism of such Arab leaders as Algeria's Ahmed ben Bella...
...measured. One by one Arab envoys in Bonn packed their bags to come home, following an Arab foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo that had reached only limited agreement on a proposal to break diplomatic ties with West Germany. Ten Arab nations agreed to withdraw ambassadors from Bonn, but Morocco, Tunisia and Libya (which annually sells Bonn 35% of its oil output, or $245 million worth) refused to go even that far. Most of the foreign ministers were frankly appalled at Nasser's call for recognition of East Germany and an economic boycott of West German goods. "If Nasser...