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...King's travels help reconcile the monarchy with his father's ex-enemies. His symbolic first tour last year took him to the northern Rif mountains, where Hassan II once crushed a revolt and called tribesmen "dirty, ignorant beggars." Thousands turned out to cheer his son, who was practically moved to tears...
Richardson, a former fourth-grade teacher and current chair of the board of Reading is Fundamental (RIF), said she wants Harvard to become more involved with K-12 education, one of the areas mentioned by President Neil L. Rudenstine in his speech on Commencement...
...ousted under Reagan's in Force. Robert L. Hill, a longtime human services worker and one of the 10,000 government workers whose jobs were eliminated under Reagan, told the Washington Post recently, "It makes you wonder if what you worked at all these years was a lie." Another RIF victim echoed, "I was shaped by JFK. I went into the Peace Corps. I have actively chosen not to work for profit. Now the public interest seems to have to do with greed and bombers and tax breaks for big business...
Although his government is broke, young King Hassan II has managed-with French and U.S. aid-to start a sugar refinery at Sidi Slimane, a dam on the Moulouya River, a terraced agricultural complex in the rough Rif country, and new tourist hotels along the coast. More important, Hassan has pushed his country toward democracy, with free elections and a freewheeling legislature. Is all this really enough? No, suggested the mobs that swept down the labyrinthine alleys of Casablanca with the violence of the harmattan, Morocco's fierce desert wind...
...army's size; its 30,000 men became known as "Hassan's boys." Next he took over the modernized, radio-equipped forces of the Surete Nationale, and then wangled control of the 21,000-man rural police from the Interior Minister. When dissident tribesmen revolted in the Rif mountains. Hassan crushed them...