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History's classic murders for policy purposes were committed by the 11th-century Moslem sect of Assassins, founded by the fanatically ambitious Hasan ibn-al-Sabbah. Established in a rocky fortress in the Elburz mountains, Hasan propagated his autocratic rule by a program of systematic murder. His killers were the Fida'is (devout ones), young men trained from adolescence in a sort of Green Beret tradition to murder with a variety of weapons...
...Hasan Kayali bounded 47 feet 2 1/2 inches for a second in the triple jump, finishing just three inches short of Princeton's Gary Bates. Embree nabbed third in the event...
Heart to Heart. Moments after he took the oath of office, Bhutto accepted the retirement offers of seven generals, including Yahya himself. (Seven more were fired later in the week, as well as six top navy officers.) He appointed a new acting army commander, Lieut. General Gul Hasan, and assured younger officers that despite the defeat, they had nothing to be ashamed of: "You are the victims of a system...
...That the course's distinguished membership includes David Rockefeller '36, Hasan Mohd Khan '58, and the "talented" Ethel Waters...
...flurry of gunfire last week at Ambelikou, a tiny Turkish Cypriot village near the town of Lefka, Ankara responded with a roar of anger. A naval flotilla of 35 vessels normally based at Izmir put to sea bound for Iskenderun, just 100 miles from Cyprus. As Turkish Foreign Minister Hasan Ishik postponed his scheduled visit to Pakistan, there were angry threats of another Turkish air strike or a naval bombardment or even an invasion...