Word: marrakesh
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...Union aided the Kuwaitis by leasing them three tankers last March. While the Administration insists it is still neutral in the 6 1/2-year war between Iran and Iraq, Assistant Defense Secretary Richard Armitage said, "We can't stand to see Iraq defeated. That specter would lead to instability from Marrakesh to Bangladesh...
...Troubles erupted early in January in a series of protests that swept across the country with surprising ferocity. First, high school students upset over the rumored imposition of new examination fees stormed the streets of Marrakesh. Then the riots quickly spread from that cosmopolitan southern city to the far poorer Mediterranean north. Protesters included students free on New Year's vacations, young people out of work, housewives and others fearful of a new round of government austerity measures that would mean hikes in food and fuel prices. Before a precarious order was restored, the government had called...
...MARRAKESH ONE-TWO by Richard Grenier Houghton Mifflin; 346 pages...
Washington's aim was to complete an agreement, reached in principle by Secretary of State Alexander Haig during a trip to Marrakesh last February, that would allow the U.S. to use Moroccan military facilities if troops ever have to be ferried to the Persian Gulf in an emergency. The plan was part of Haig's continuing attempt to forge a "strategic consensus" to contain Communist influence in the Middle East. Hassan was amenable to the idea on the basis of an unwritten agreement, though the U.S. was still hoping to talk him into signing a formal statement...
DIED. Claude Auchinleck, 96, British field marshal who in 1941 opened the North African campaign that led to the defeat of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel; in Marrakesh, Morocco. After winning the first battle of El Alamein, Auchinleck was relieved of his command for refusing to counterattack Rommel west of Cairo...