Word: hassan
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Mohammed's eldest son was invested as the new king, Hassan II, three days later. Wearing a red fez and a white djellaball in place of his customary sharp, Western-style clothes, he pledged himself to carry on his father's policies in reigning over the nearly 12 million people of his California-sized kingdom...
...thinly populated (650,000) French territory of Mauritania became the 18th nation to achieve independence this year. Tunisia quickly recognized it, but Morocco refused to, claiming Mauritania as a lost province willfully withheld from it by France. In October Morocco's fiery Deputy Premier, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, 31, flew to Tunis to convince President Habib Bourguiba that he should back the Moroccan claim to Mauritania. Recalls Bourguiba: "The crown prince went so far as to say, 'If ever you want to lay claim to Sicily, we Moroccans will support you.' Sicily! Why not Nice and Corsica...
...this, however, failed to satisfy Moroccan Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, who, as boss of his nation's armed forces, decided that the 1960 parade would not be complete without some jets flying in close formation overhead. To fulfill his dream, the prince got a promise from Morocco's former French masters of twelve Mistral jet fighters to form the nucleus of a new Royal Moroccan Air Force. Last week, on the eve of the "three glorious days," the French welshed, irritated with Morocco's increasingly active support of the Algerian rebels...
Presumably, Moulay Hassan could have called on the U.S. for planes. But the Moroccan government was already in hot water with the country's left-wingers, who were howling that King Mohammed had let American military advisers infiltrate the Moroccan armed services. Accordingly, the prince called in Moscow's balloon-faced Dmitry Pozhidaev, who for weeks had been heavily hinting that Russia wants to aid Morocco "in all spheres." And on the day of the great parade, Moulay Hassan was able to unveil the next best thing to a new air force: a Russian promise to supply Morocco...
Looking mighty like a man-and the spitting image of his older brother, King Hussein of Jordan-Prince Hassan, 13, deplaned at London Airport with his mother, Queen Mother Zaine, for the start of school. The natty young prince will attend Harrow, which Winston Churchill attended 68 years ago, and where Hussein matriculated for a year, made the soccer and rugby teams before moving on to Sandhurst...