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They made a slightly unlikely pair of jet-set Bedouins. Novelist Truman Capote, 42, took the road to Morocco with his old pal Princess Lee Radziwill, 34, Jackie Kennedy's sister. Though Lee's husband, Prince Stanislas Radziwill, had to stay behind in London, she and Truman were off for a vacation that will last, as Truman announced in his adenoidal purr, "as long as the country is interesting." Settling briefly at the new Rabat Hilton, Truman explained: "I came because Lee was here twice last year and she was so enthused. Lee as usual is riding...
Arab monarchy still involves subtleties and power plays difficult to find elsewhere. In Morocco, since protocol requires that ministers kiss the King's right hand, and royal etiquette says that the King should draw his hand away before contact is made, the speed at which the King pulls away is an indication of the importance a man carries at court. (The method is, at any rate, simpler than many signals of favor and disfavor given at Communist courts or even in democratic presidential mansions.) Last year Morocco's King Hassan dissolved Parliament and has been running the country...
Widespread Repercussions. At its semiannual meeting in Kuwait, the Boy cott Office of the 13-nation Arab League (Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, the United Arab Republic and Yemen) voted for a ban by all Arab countries on doing business with all three companies. The action against Coca-Cola came in retaliation for the granting of an Israeli bottling franchise to Manhattan Banker Abraham Feinberg, who is also president of the Israel Development Corp., which promotes Bonds for Israel. RCA angered the Arabs by allowing phonograph records to be pressed in Israel. The move...
...Morocco's King Hassan...
...whizbang called the F-5 Freedom Fighter. A flight of Philippine F-5s snapped into escort positions around Air Force One when President Johnson took off on the Manila-to-Bangkok leg of his Southeast Asian trip. Belgium and The Netherlands are about to order the planes. This month Morocco's King Hassan, anxious to retire his aging Russian-built MIG-17s, will take delivery of a dozen...