European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                              By Stephen Hughes a staff writer Long known As a sin City Casa Blanca is being cleaned up by moroc can authorities waging an anti vice Campaign in order to make the town worthy of the Independence Morocco won three years  already closed houses of prostitution and cleared the City s streets of ladies of easy virtue the City fathers have now banned strip teasers and belly dancers. Many tourists for whom Morocco an especially Casablanca Are meccas of these anatomical and abdominal arts will no find that there is Bai Ely a Square foot of flesh to be seen in the City s night  municipal authorities think both these forms of entertainment Are not Only immoral but also in moroccan. In fact they Are considered vestiges of colonial ism imported from abroad and not representative of real moorish  All nightclub and cabaret entertainment must be fully clothed or canned and no moroccan girls May dance sing or act As barmaids in these establishments. The ban does not affect moroccan girl who specialize in moorish folklore danc ing and singing. On the contrary tin form of entertainment is encouraged by the authorities who would rather tourist watched these Over dressed performers than the dance of the seven veils which is not a native moroccan product. With their Campaign for the emancipation of moroccan womanhood the authorities led by Princess Lalla Aisha Kin Mohammed avg eldest daughter Are try ing to persuade moroccan girls to reject pos 12 the item veil which hides their faces. However while they want them to Takeoff one veil they certainly Don t want them to take off seven veils for the amusement of tired businessmen in night  the fact that Many moroccans believe it is an unwelcome foreign in fluence imported from the United states strip teasing originated in the Middle East As the Story of Salome and her dance of the seven veils  dancing has also been imported from the Middle East from Persia but political observers Here do not think the bans on both forms of dancing mean that Morocco is making a significant stand against Middle East culture. On the contrary Morocco is As pro Arab and pro Nasser As  fact the ban hits westerners Here hardest. With very rare exceptions al owners of nightclubs which specialize in this kind of Fol Derol and feathers Are westerners mostly frenchmen. Out in desert oases in the mountains and occasionally in sumptuous moorish palaces on special occasions tourists visit ing Morocco will be Able to see folklore dancing  of these dances performed mainly by richly Clad girls but also by dancing boys sometimes Are unique and highly colourful in a wild and primitive Way. Among them Are the awash per formed by berber girls in the great Atlas mountains and the Guerra danced on the Knees by the Blue people who in habit the deep South on the desert Doorstep. Pompeii s big Amphitheater was the scene of sporting events. Personal effects left in Hasty Retreat. Aerial View of the ancient City destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79.10th tac recon Wing photo stately Arch serves As Gateway to cobbled Lane. A one Day Winter tour Casablanca cleans up ? ? a 2,000 year old past gilded cupids House one of Pompeii s luxurious residences. Excavated remains of the forum the City s main Market place. The stars and stripes when Italy s mount Vesuvius erupted 79 years after the birth of Christ and engulfed Pompeii the result was Rov shy the same As if a thriving Community like River Rouge in Michigan were to disappear from the face of the Earth. Historians and archaeologists have pegged Pompeii s population at about 20,000 persons and they estimate that the majority of them perished in the catastrophe that happened on a hot August Day nearly2,000 years ago. The sudden horrible death of so Large number of people has been of great in Terest to archaeological scientists writers and just Plain rubber neck tourists for More than 200 years since the site was Dis covered under layers of lava. A favorite attraction for visitors to Italy sailors from the . Navy s 6th Fleet al most invariably make the 12-mile run from Naples to visit Pompeii. As an archaeological find Pompeii is wide open Gateway to the past. Those who died at Pompeii would hardly be expected to appreciate the fact that in their Hor Rible end they have achieved a Type of immortality. The 28-hour eruption vividly portray Din Bulwer Lytton s 19th Century novel the last Days of Pompeii killed  that period the hot volcanic Ash settled mom a february 23, 1959 by Brendan p. Mulready staff writer Over the Community to a depth of 20 feet covering the people exactly As they died. Driving Rains hit soon afterwards an seventeen centuries later diggers found perfect holds where the bodies had Lai undisturbed through the years. Household utensils were found in Kitch ens exactly As fleeing housewives had left them in their hurried departure. Pathetic Olds on the roads leading out of town showed where the inhabitants themselves had fallen in their Effort to get away from the stricken City. The nature of the catastrophe was such that houses Public buildings and streets appear nearly 2,000 years later exactly a they were on the Day disaster struck. Only Woodwork and other perishable material Shad disappeared. By carefully excavating Over the Las two Hundred years scientists have been Able to learn How the ancient pompeian lived. Surprisingly enough their Way of life is not unlike the daily routine to be found in any modern City of comparable size. While Pompeii did not boast electricity and television it had running water and the ancient Lead pipes that plumbers of nearly 2,000 years ago installed Are Stillin use to this Day. The City is Oval shaped with straight streets running the length and Width of the Community in a one Way traffic Pat Tern. The streets were Laid Long before the Day Pompeii was buried in lava a dash and deep Chariot tracks May still be seen particularly at intersections where the wheels ground heavily into the Stone paving blocks to make the Corners. Although the most important of the ancient artefacts discovered at the site have been removed for safekeeping to the museum at Naples some articles and re productions Are on display at a smaller museum just outside the City Gate through which visitors enter. Here May be seen casts of bodies founding the ruins. Mummy like they were made by pouring a plaster substance into them Olds found throughout the City. In no Case were actual remains found. They had been destroyed by time and chemical action. The casts however Are lifelike an give a realistic impression of the last minute agonies of those who died in the eruption mostly from asphyxiation. Additionally various household utensils and other things in common use at the time of the eruption May be seen including a set of surgical instruments which Bear an uncanny resemblance to those Inuse in modern 20th Century hospitals. The architecture of the City has Bee identified Over a period going Back to five centuries before the Christian Era. Dwel Lings of the Imperial period which ended on the Day Pompeii died show that i general the Pompeii ans lived in style. The houses of the Well to do entered around Garden courtyards with living spaces Ronall sides in a style that could almost recalled modern californian. Cicero had a Villa at Pompeii. The daily needs of the Community were supplied by a corps of artisans and Small shopkeepers whose Day to Day routine has been determined with almost mathematical accuracy by the , opened for the first time after 1,700 years produced loaves turned to charcoal and a bar which served hot and cold drinks was found in almost perfect preservation with Money in the till and Small change on the counter. While Pompeii is included in nearly every major organized tour of Italy individuals May make their own arrange ments to see the City from either Romeo Naples. The Small admission charge is used to help defray the expenses of excavation and maintenance. The stars and stripes Page 13