CIA Reading Room cia-rdp87t00289r000100170001-0: NEAR EAST AND SOUTH ASIA REVIEW

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/30: CIA-RDP87T00289R000100170001-0 Directorate Seeret Intelligence of I MASTER FILE CUPY I T CIzE OUT 02 Mt' ON Near East and South Asia Review 30 August 1985 NESA NESAR 85-019 30 August 1985 Copy 416 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/30: CIA-RDP87T00289R000100170001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/30: CIA-RDP87T00289R000100170001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/30: CIA-RDP87T00289R000100170001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/30: CIA-RDP87T00289R000100170001-0 Near East and South Asia Review Articles Algeria: Intentions Toward Morocco Although the Moroccan Prime Minister has portrayed Algeria as an imminent threat to his country, Algiers does not want relations to deteriorate to the point that large-scale military hostilities are likely but will instead focus its pressure on King Hassan to negotiate an arrangement allowing some Saharan autonomy. As Tunisia's traditional, Western-oriented nationalism loses impetus with the aging of President Bourguiba and the waning of his appeal, Islam provides a focus for those repulsed by Soviet-style Marxism and offended by what they perceive to be the overweening influence of European political and cultural values. Saudi Arabia, among the most conservative of the world's Islamic states, maintains religious police to assure public a