Word: hassan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hall to conference table to the Sphinx, and then on through the sky as if sheer nerve and speed could reassemble that divided world. "You must not take the temperature every day," Kissinger cautioned his fellow travelers, who were measuring every gesture and word (like Morocco's King Hassan walking Kissinger back to his villa after midnight). "We'll know better in a few days...
Kissinger conferred with three kings -Hassan II of Morocco, Hussein of Jordan and Feisal of Saudi Arabia-as well as Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba. But the key city was obviously Cairo, and Kissinger's 32-hour stopover there was just as obviously a huge success. After a three-hour discussion with Sadat, who was wearing the uniform of an Egyptian army field marshal, Kissinger and the Egyptian President emerged smiling from the Tahra Palace to face a swarm of skeptical newsmen. Sadat was asked what he thought of the progress of war and peace in the Middle...
Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Hassan Zayyat, who led the drive to get the resolution to a vote, complained after the U.S. veto that "regardless of what you think is legal ... you will not be able to do anything because no matter what force you have, Israel will be put in a position to frustrate you"-which neatly summed up the stalemate...
...until later that evening did Hassan feel certain of Oufkir's guilt. By that time, both Amekrane and another pilot, Major Kouera el Ouafi, were being questioned, a fact known by Oufkir. At 11 p.m., Hassan summoned Oufkir to his palace at Skhirat. Oufkir delayed, but after two more phone calls from the King, he arrived around midnight. The royal family was waiting; in a fury Hassan's mother grabbed Oufkir. "Listen, I've had enough of this army that has frightened me twice already," she said. Oufkir moved on into the children's room, nervously...
...right, I understand," said Oufkir. "I know what's left for me to do." With that, according to Hassan, Oufkir pulled his revolver to shoot himself. Others tried to stop him; some wild shots hit the ceiling. "The last shot was fatal," said Hassan-though he may not have told the whole story. Paris' Le Nouvel Observateur reported that those who saw Oufkir's body the next morning said that one bullet had hit him in the stomach, another near the lung, a third in the right arm, and a fourth in the back of his neck...