Word: rabat
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...slim, doe-eyed young king has a well-developed taste for fast cars, fleet horses and rapid starlets. Hassan was often in the company of pretty. 28-year-old French Actress Etchika Choureau, who, for three years, lived across the street from him in fashionable Souissi, a suburb of Rabat. But Etchika has returned to Paris. One of his close friends last year was U.S. Navy Lieut. Commander Leon Blair, a brash, talkative Texan and former public relations officer at the U.S. naval base at Kenitra. Blair shipped in pecan trees from Texas for Hassan's garden, prairie dogs...
...Parade. The big cities quickly went into opposition. Socialists, trade unions and students railed against unemployment, grinding poverty, and the government's inability to provide decent housing in place of the fetid bidonvilles (shanty towns) surrounding Rabat, Casablanca and Port Lyautey. Hassan was accused of using the army for strike breaking, of being pro-French...
Under F.L.N. pressure, Hassan was persuaded to allow the Communists to ship arms for the Algerian rebels through Morocco. Last month, coinciding with the arrival of the MIGs, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev flew into Rabat after dodging warning shots from French jet fighters. Brezhnev got not only a lavish welcome but also Hassan's promise to attend this year's May Day parade in Moscow...
...this context that one must consider the development of Moroccan-Soviet cooperation. If certain recent manifestations give witness to its importance, this results from the great role played by the Soviet Union in the international field, and not from any vassalage on our part whatever." Western diplomats in Rabat see Hassan as following a calculated policy that is aimed first at appeasing left-wing opposition at home, second at improving Morocco's position in Africa. As a conservative monarchy on a continent where the trend is toward strongman republics, Morocco must not seem behindhand in the emotion-packed "African...
...Access. Next day, Bourguiba flew to Rabat for the funeral of Morocco's King Mohammed V (see above) and to meet with new King Hassan II and the provisional Premier of the F.L.N., Ferhat Abbas. After a late dinner, the three talked until hours past midnight. With the young King's help, Bourguiba tried to soften the rigid and suspicious posture of the F.L.N. and assure them of De Gaulle's good faith...