Word: hassan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cairo, in the wake of a rash of ceremonies celebrating Egypt's freedom from foreign troops, the newly brassbound Chief of Staff of the brand-new Moroccan army, moonfaced Mouldy Hassan, 28 (whose new rank is explained by his competence and his nearness to Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Yousef, his father), got off a neat bit of guidance for neutrals being courted by two worlds. Said he: "We are Moslems and have the right to be bigamists. We can marry both the East and the West, and remain faithful to our spouses...
Help from Cairo. Last summer he sent an old friend and fellow "Free Officer," Major General Ahmed Hassan el Faki, as an ambassador to spread the word of Egypt's pan-Arabism. Neighboring Libya was a part of Mussolini's empire until
...that plots busily at cafe tables against British rule there. Iraq (Egypt's chief Arab rival) caught an Egyptian army officer masquerading as an Egyptian embassy butler and convicted him of conspiracy. In neighboring and impoverished Libya, where the U.S. has a big air base. Egyptian Ambassador Ahmed Hassan el Faki connives busily with his good friend Russian Ambassador Nikolai Generaloff to root Western influence out of the country. In the words of one correspondent, they are "closer than worms in a bait can." Cairo has also given asylum to Colonel Abdullah el Tel, onetime Arab Legion commander...
...last to get in under the wire was six-year-old Ahmed Hassan, who had been left behind with grandparents in Bombay after his parents visited India three years ago. Traveling alone, little Ahmed managed to get a seat on one of the last planes leaving Nairobi for Johannesburg. Failing that, he would have been barred from his parents' home permanently. In the future not even a baby born to a South African Asian while traveling abroad will be allowed to enter its mother's country, and a South African Asian marrying abroad will be unable to bring...
...court last week found 16 leaders of the Moslem Brotherhood guilty as charged of plotting the murder of Egypt's Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser (TIME, Dec. 6), sentenced seven to death, seven to life imprisonment, two to 15 years at hard labor. The death sentence of Brotherhood Leader Hassan el Hodeiby was commuted to life imprisonment...