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Western Sahara. Following Spain's withdrawal from its former North African colony in 1975, King Hassan II of Morocco dispatched 350,000 of his unarmed subjects into the region to claim it. They were later backed up by Moroccan troops. Opposing the Moroccans is the Algerian-backed Polisario Front, a guerrilla force that claims sovereignty over the area...
...Arab Kings, Hussein of Jordan and Hassan II of Morocco, congratulated Mubarak on the return of the Sinai. They said they would welcome a renewal of the close ties that they formerly enjoyed with Egypt if Mubarak would endorse their position on the Palestinians, which would include a restoration of Arab sovereignty to the remaining occupied territories. But this Mubarak cannot do, since he is committed to the Camp David agreement and, through it, to a less explicit concept of Palestinian autonomy. Thus, while it is possible for Mubarak to improve his ties with the other Arabs, he cannot...
...Balliol team overpowered Harvard in almost every scrum by giving them ground and then pushing them back when they got off balance. "They didn't put any pressure on us at first," said freshman Hassan Raffat. "It was like pushing on jello...
...notion that Israel's aim in the West Bank was "coexistence" was challenged by a number of Arab leaders. Jordan's Crown Prince Hassan said angrily, "This really is the final phase of Israel's efforts to liquidate the Palestinian people," and Jordan's Foreign Minister Marwan el Kassem declared: "The sight of Israeli civilian settlers firing guns into a crowd of unarmed Arab demonstrators can only remind us of the tactics used to drive Palestinians from their homes...
After a frantic hour-and-a-half flurry of phone calls, at 8:15 a.m. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Hassan El Zayyat, in New York for the U.N. meeting, called and claimed Israeli units had attacked Egyptian positions in the Gulf of Suez. Fourteen minutes later the Israeli embassy in Washington called to report that Egyptian and Syrian planes had been attacking along all fronts for the past half hour. The attack began at approximately 2 p.m. Middle East time, or 8 a.m. Washington time...