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...England's gift to the Green Revolution. Hamo's goddaughter, Alexandra, is following rather the same route. Hers is the sort of pilgrimage 21-year-old girls from middle-class Anglo-American homes embarked upon in the late 1960s, involving swamis in India and communes in Morocco, with Tolkien as an all-sufficient Baedeker of the soul. In Goa, these two breeds of latter-day ma gician, the scientist and the hippie, cross paths. For an instant each one senses a promise of salvation in the other before Hamo goes to his death at the hands...
When he saw a pretty girl, he surveyed her expertly and sometimes invoked presidential political privilege and shook hands, lingering a moment or two for closer inspection. "I never cared much for El Morocco and nightclub life," he said about his salad days. "Just give me a beach and a girl any time." After he had called the big steel executives s.o.b.s in 1962, he was asked how come he had violated his own rule against indulgence in anger. "Because it felt so good," he said, grinning...
Kissinger conferred with three kings -Hassan II of Morocco, Hussein of Jordan and Feisal of Saudi Arabia-as well as Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba. But the key city was obviously Cairo, and Kissinger's 32-hour stopover there was just as obviously a huge success. After a three-hour discussion with Sadat, who was wearing the uniform of an Egyptian army field marshal, Kissinger and the Egyptian President emerged smiling from the Tahra Palace to face a swarm of skeptical newsmen. Sadat was asked what he thought of the progress of war and peace in the Middle...
...Eastern and South Asian Affairs, like the 38 other members of Henry Kissinger's entourage, was nervously waiting for takeoff in the VIP lounge at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington. It was 8 o'clock in the morning, but one by one the ambassadors of Iran, Morocco and Jordan and the Chinese liaison officer-all representing countries that Kissinger would visit in his twelve-day round-the-world journey-arrived to see him off. There were handshakes all around, and then the big blue and white Air Force One headed out over the Atlantic in the cold...
...Morocco was the first Arab country that Kissinger visited. The odd presence of a German-born American Jew in the ornate Arab palace seemed to symbolize how much was riding on the trip. Kissinger was not the only one to sense as much. That evening, after the end of a midnight talk with King Hassan II, 44, who is generally regarded as an Arab moderate, the monarch showed unprecedented courtesy by walking Kissinger a full block back to his guest villa at the Royal Palace...