Word: hassan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unarmed Swiss firemen, alerted by the tower, which spotted smoke from the grenades. One terrorist threw away his gun, and a fireman took a second gun away from another. Plunging toward the milling group, Rahamim fired three shots at close range, killing one of the Arabs, Abdel Moshen Hassan, a 32-year-old Jordanian. The police then took into custody his three companions, including one woman, a 22-year-old schoolteacher named Amena Dahbor. All three claimed to be Palestinian...
Iraq's Baathist junta of retired Major General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr has become increasingly nervous and repressive since it came to power last July. It began with a "policy of openness," pledged to stamp out corruption, release political prisoners and welcome exiles home. But the junta had too narrow a power base to tolerate such liberal measures. Last Dec. 3, when the Israelis shelled and bombed Iraqi forces in Jordan, the Al-Bakr regime was quick to blame its growing internal troubles on Israeli spies...
...linger. They laid railroads and built 133 hospitals, constructed ports and power plants, at one point claimed to be opening a school classroom a day. But the roads led mainly to French industries, and the schools served mostly French children. Independence came in 1956. Now, under hard-working King Hassan II, Moroccans are still poor, but don't whine about it, and show no complex of inferiority. The nation is Arabic, but it permits full freedom of religion and takes a moderate stand in the Arab-Israeli conflict...
...from Beirut. To back up its remaining five planes, the line has since chartered three Comets from Kuwait Airways, one Boeing 720B from Ethiopian Airlines and another Boeing from Air France. It will also have six months' free use of a Caravelle owned by Morocco's King Hassan II. Other offers to help have come in from Pan American, Lufthansa, KLM and Russia's Aeroflot...
...mankind's spiritual life. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson cabled that the flight "has added a new dimension to our appreciation that this is indeed one world." There were similar messages from U.N. Secretary General U Thant, French President Charles de Gaulle, Premier Eisaku Sato of Japan, King Hassan of Morocco and a host of other world leaders. Even Havana radio contributed to worldwide reaction by presenting lengthy and approving appraisals of Apollo 8's moon mission...