Word: casablanca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manager of the Club Casablanca was shot and killed at the Brattle Street bar Saturday night...
Govert K. van Schaik '62, the manager and a part owner of the Casablanca, was shot during business hours at the club, which is located under the Brattle Theatre. He was pronounced dead there by the Medical Examiner...
Karuna-Karan was arrested Saturday night at the Casablanca bar on Brattle Street and charged with drunkenness after he attempted to intervene in the arrest of Ronald A. Swift, a teacher at the Aveo Day Care Center in Roxbury. Karuna-Karan felt Swift was being unjustly arrested...
...Right Royal Damn. Rebels appeared throughout Morocco. Even while hundreds of army cadets attacked at Skhirat, other anti-Hassan forces seized radio stations in Rabat, the capital, and Casablanca, announced that the King had been overthrown, and proclaimed a "revolutionary republic." Shouting slogans like "Socialism has arrived-down with the monarchy!" rebel broadcasters brought thousands of dissident Moroccans into the streets. Many gleefully tore down birthday posters bearing Hassan's portrait. But their demonstration proved short-lived as baton-wielding police beat them back...
Last week Hassan gave his Interior Minister wide authority to put down the disturbances. Oufkir used that power as ruthlessly as he did six years ago, when troops were called out to put down student demonstrations in Casablanca, the first serious anti-Hassan riot...