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Jasmine & Satin. In the Moroccan capital of Rabat last week, a strapping black African sentry, resplendent in scarlet uniform, white puttees and black-tasseled bicorn, paced slowly back and forth in front of the brass-studded door that leads into Princess Lalla (Lady) Aisha's green-tiled villa. In the courtyard, a slender fountain tinkled in a garden dominated by four dome-shaped hibiscus bushes; from delicately wrought arbors came the sweet, heavy-bodied scent of flowering blue jasmine...
...delegations of well-wishers and counsel seekers. She larded her speeches and pronouncements with action-some of it high, heady and maverick for a royal princess. She drove her own car, rode horses, bareheaded and astride, showed up frequently at the public beach in Rabat for a plunge in the surf. Aisha became a national heroine just by existing...
Most mornings in Rabat she rises well before 9, enjoys a set of tennis, or a prebreakfast ride on one of the 15 horses in her father's stable. Lately she has been cutting down on exercise. "When I exercise I get hungry," she says, "and when I get hungry I eat, and when...
Five mornings a week she drives out to her office in outlying Rabat, where she directs Morocco's Entraide Nationale, the administrative headquarters of all Moroccan welfare agencies, and fountainhead of Morocco's drive against illiteracy. Says Aisha: "This position lets me touch the lowest levels of society-the fellahin, widows and orphans alike. I work here not just to supervise, but to participate in the lives of the people. By touching evil at close quarters, I can learn how to cure...
...nation's first Paramount Ruler because of his marital didoes (TIME. Aug. 12), and across the Strait of Malacca, when Indonesia's President Sukarno took a third wife, he touched off vehement, widely publicized feminist demonstrations. In the more cosmopolitan Moslem cities such as Rabat, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul and Karachi, unveiled women have long since ceased to be a novelty. In Turkey the veil was lifted some 30 years ago under the late great Dictator Kemal Ataturk, and in Iran under the late Reza Shah...