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The United States and North Africa the southern border regions and caused minor incidents until French troops were withdrawn a year later. Late in 1957, however, ex-leaders of the Liberation Army formed a new political party, the Popular Movement, which stressed a vague doctrine of "Islamic socialism," and has shown strength in rural and Berber areas in which the Army had previously operated. After the restoration of public order, which was completed by the end of 1956, Moroccan political life blossomed. Since independence there have been six governments, four of them political cabinets and the last two formed and presided over by the King. The first government of Si Bekkai lasted until October 1956, but was under constant attack by the Istiqlal, which wanted all the cabinet posts instead of a mere majority. In fact, the cabinet was a govering institution in name only at this time because of the unlimited nature of royal power, and the separate political activity which flourished in the palace with all its ramifications, plus royal control of the Army and the police. When the second, all-Istiqlal government was formed, the King recained Si Bekkai, personally loyal to him, as head of government and fomed a crown council to handle certain matters that he did not want to go through the cabinet. Thus, the Istiqlal did not ever have full power and it was, moreover, beginning to show signs of internal strain. The enthusiastic support it had received from a majority of the people just after independence was giving way to disillusion- ment as the economy slowed down and the standard of living dipped. Also there was a basic cleavage between the old-guard leadership which had come from and represented more con- servative circles and a minority group headed by Mehdi ben Barka, Abdallah Ibrahim, and Abderrahim Bouabid, which ac- cused the party of having lost conect with popular reality and which turned to the urban proletariat for support. The quarrel was noticeable in 1957, when the tone of party publi- cations controlled by each faction started to clash. After the Istiqlal ministers had resigned and brought down the second |
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