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...Leader Mohammed ben Bella and four of his colleagues, who were seized five years ago when the French pilot of their Moroccan plane landed at Algiers. Ben Bella and his friends will be flown from their place of detention, the Château d'Aulnoy near Paris, to Rabat, where a heroes' welcome is being prepared for them by Morocco's King Hassan...
Married. Prince Moulay Abdallah, 26, younger brother of Morocco's King Hassan II; and Lamia Solh, 26, golden-haired, Sorbonne-schooled daughter of onetime Lebanese Premier Riad Solh, who was assassinated in 1951; both for the first time; in Rabat, Morocco...
...pleasure for Aisha and her two sisters, Malika, 28, and Fatima Zorah, 32, to marry expeditiously; the choice of husbands was left to them. Each woman promptly said yes to a suitor. Malika, who runs the Red Crescent Society (Moslem equivalent of the Red Cross), became engaged to Rabat's smooth Ambassador to France, Mohammed ben Abdallah Cherkaoui, 40; shy Fatima Zorah picked Prince Moulay Ali el Alaoui, 38, a first cousin and the royal family's shrewdest business brain. Princess Aisha's choice: El Hassan ben Abdelaziz al Yakoubi, 27 (Aisha is 31), a handsome gentleman...
...triple wedding in Rabat's ornate Riad Palace last week was a fairly traditional Moslem affair. But King Hassan II departed from ancient convention: he wore a dark business suit while looking on from his pink throne. The three princesses all went through intricate prenuptial purification ceremonies, including a ritual dousing administered by female attendants. At the ceremony itself, they all wore veils. For Lalla Aisha, especially, the choice of husbands seemed felicitous. Her husband, Hassan al Yakoubi, is known as a widely traveled, fun-loving sportsman, more accustomed than most Moroccan men to the ways of emancipated women...
Engaged. Princess Lalla Aisha, 30, Morocco's great female emancipator (TIME cover, Nov. 11, 1957 ), sister of King Hassan II; and Hassan Al Yakoubi, 26, prosperous landowner; at the royal palace in Rabat, in a double ceremony that saw her sleek, similarly Westernized sister, Princess Lalla Malika, 23, betrothed to Mohammed Cherkaoui, 40, Morocco's ambassador-designate to France...