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...favorite daughter had eloped with a roué, leaving her parents bewildered and angry. So it was that Ahmed Reda Guedira, a royal counselor to King Hassan II of Morocco, faced a decidedly frosty reception in Washington last week when he visited Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State George Shultz and other Administration officials. A month ago the conservative Hassan, long a staunch U.S. ally, had suddenly initiated a treaty of friendship with Libya's radical strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Washington's Public Enemy No. 1. Officially the State Department admitted to being "surprised" by the improbable...
...months before the election, Hassan also entered the race by having his closest confidant, Interior-Agriculture Minister Ahmed Reda Guedira, 40, organize a pro-Hassan party christened the Front for the Defense of Constitutional Institutions. Unsurprisingly, the F.D.C.I. enjoyed the use of government vehicles to haul wondering tribesmen to rallies, plus the organized support of the government's administrative bureaucracy. Flush with campaign cash, F.D.C.I. Leader Guedira (who got some pointers when he witnessed the 1960 U.S. election campaign) passed out thousands of free miniature soccer balls, T-shirts and campaign buttons bearing the royalist party color (yellow). More...
...Gamal Abdel Nasser, King Hassan resisted, arguing that the nation's future lies less with the Arab world than with France and Europe's Common Market. He also opposed the nationalists' agitation on the border claims. Said Hassan's closest political confidant, Cabinet Director Ahmed Reda Guedira, after the purge: "The King had to get rid of the grains of sand which always kept the state machinery out of order ... the leaders and platforms of the old parties are stale, like empty eggshells...