Word: souks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course," says a young visitor from New York-and indeed Morocco is a hashhead's delight. Kif, raw leaf marijuana, is openly (although illegally) sold for $4.50 a pound and widely smoked in public in clay pipes that can be bought for 100 a dozen in any souk, or shop. With or without the assistance of kif, Morocco is a delight. In winter, a venturesome visitor can swim in the morning off the beach at Essaouira on the Atlantic, lunch on kefta (skewered minced steak with herbs) in Marrakesh, and ski the afternoon away at Oukaïmeden...
Wall posters depicted a gargantuan Arab crushing a tiny Israel beneath his boot. Khaki was the predominant color among the milling crowds in the souk (bazaar). Most of those in the street seemed to be either policemen, soldiers, or members of one or another of Syria's plethora of paramilitary organizations, ranging from the "Volunteer People's Army" to the Futtawa youth corps...