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From the King's point of view, the best news was a reaffirmation of the Reagan Administration's pledge to press for a big increase in U.S. arms aid to Morocco. The President had already asked Congress for $100 million in military sales credits for Morocco for next year, compared with this year's $30 million...
...additional aid, if approved by Congress, would enable the King to buy armaments he needs to pursue a six-year-old desert war that neither the Moroccans nor their enemies appear to be capable of winning. The war, centered in the former Spanish Sahara to the south of Morocco, pits Hassan's armed forces against the guerrillas of the Polisario Front. The rebels, who are supported by Algeria and Libya, hope to create an independent state in the barren, 103,000-sq.-mi. territory...
...region since precolonial times. In 1975, when Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco lay on his deathbed, Hassan led 300,000 of his unarmed subjects on a March across the border into the Spanish Sahara. The ploy worked. Spain withdrew from the colony immediately, I leaving the northern two-thirds to Morocco and the southern third to Mauritania. Nobody asked the inhabitants, believed to number about 100,000, what they wanted for their country. As it turned out, many of them wanted independence and, toward that end, banded together in a guerrilla fighting force...
Western Sahara. Following Spain's withdrawal from its former North African colony in 1975, King Hassan II of Morocco dispatched 350,000 of his unarmed subjects into the region to claim it. They were later backed up by Moroccan troops. Opposing the Moroccans is the Algerian-backed Polisario Front, a guerrilla force that claims sovereignty over the area...
...Arab Kings, Hussein of Jordan and Hassan II of Morocco, congratulated Mubarak on the return of the Sinai. They said they would welcome a renewal of the close ties that they formerly enjoyed with Egypt if Mubarak would endorse their position on the Palestinians, which would include a restoration of Arab sovereignty to the remaining occupied territories. But this Mubarak cannot do, since he is committed to the Camp David agreement and, through it, to a less explicit concept of Palestinian autonomy. Thus, while it is possible for Mubarak to improve his ties with the other Arabs, he cannot...