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...recognition toward all of these people." He green-lighted the return of exiles, like the family of Mehdi Ben Barka, a friend turned opponent of his father's allegedly murdered by agents in Paris. Last year Mohammed VI sent a secret emissary to France to arrange the return of Morocco's most famous political refugee, Abraham Serfaty, a Marxist who spent 17 years in prison before being deported in 1991. Today Serfaty lives in a seaside villa courtesy of the palace. "Hassan II was feudal," says Serfaty. "But Mohammed VI is modern. He does not have an authoritarian disposition...
...King hasn't quite reconciled with Morocco's Muslim fundamentalists, but he is trying. He recently ordered the release of Sheik Abdessalam Yassine after 10 years of house arrest. Hassan II hounded the Islamist leader for years, even putting him in a mental hospital after Yassine wrote an open letter to the King denouncing his alleged unholy behavior. Mohammed VI acted, even though Yassine continues to question the King's religious authority...
...jogged along, scarcely breaking a sweat, the King mused on his devotion to Morocco's ancient Jewish community, the national soccer team's lackluster performance, America's penchant for simple solutions and a piece of advice his father once gave him. "He told me that the most important thing was 'to last,'" Mohammed VI explained. "In truth, I do not know what he meant. Since he died, I have been thinking about it. I do not deserve my current success. What matters is to be appreciated later for what one has achieved...
Mohammed VI seems well aware that times are changing, that the days of feudalism in Morocco are over. An enormous risk is that his eagerness to initiate change may undermine budding democratic institutions like Morocco's parliament--and set him up for a fall if public opinion sours. "I cannot do everything," he hastens to say. "We must all roll up our sleeves." He makes no pretense to his father's stature as statesman, although he does not lack for opinions. He criticizes Europeans for seeing North Africans as terrorists, and when asked if he is satisfied with U.S. economic...
...From Morocco, SCOTT MACLEOD, TIME's roving Middle East correspondent, sends an up-close look at King Mohammed VI. Not only did MacLeod sit down with the young monarch for the first royal interview, but he moved with the King as well, flying and driving about with him. Writer and King even went for a jog together. Says MacLeod of the Moroccans: "This is the first major political change these people have had in their lifetimes...