Word: riffed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elder son, 29-year-old Moulay Hassan, is Crown Prince, although Moroccan kings traditionally have been chosen by a college of ulema. or religious judges. He is French-educated, intelligent, can exude kilowatts of charm. As commander in chief of the royal army fighting the rebels in the Rif (TIME, Dec. 22) and around Fez, he takes his job seriously, works hard. But Morocco's young nationalists do not hide their dislike for the prince and his way of life. Only a few weeks ago a Berlin businessman sued luxury-loving Moulay Hassan and his French actress friend Etchika...
...rumble of discontent in the bleak, brown Rif mountains of northern Morocco (TIME, Dec. 22) grew so loud that King Mohammed V and his politicians in Rabat could no longer ignore it. Last week gunshots, artillery fire and rocket explosions echoed through the Rif in the most serious challenge to the King's authority in the three years of Morocco's independence from France...
Some came out waving white flags of surrender. But in the Rif, warriors in brown and grey djellabahs, armed with old German Mausers and French muskets, swept down from the hills, cut the muddy coastal road leading to the city of Tetuán, surrounded a royal army barracks near the port of Alhucemas and seized an airport near...
Actually, the government was using, as well as showing, force. Some Moroccan leaders dramatically likened the trouble in the Rif ''to the U.S. in 1860." Explained one: ''We must preserve the union. Central authority must be imposed...
Today the Rif mountains have become a sort of giant casbah, ruled by an underground that is becoming each day more highly organized. Last week TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow received an anonymous phone call inviting him to visit their camp. A clandestine meeting with Riff leaders in Rabat was followed by a scribbled note of introduction in Arabic; he was led into the hills, first by car and then by mule, handed on from guide to guide. Rocks and bushes along the roads and paths turned out to be camouflaged tribesmen. Time after time he and his guides were stopped...