Word: hassan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Weary Sigh. The nature of the French postindependence presence in Djibouti awaits negotiation between Paris and the infant republic's new President, Hassan Gouled, 61, a veteran politician who agitated for Djibouti's independence for nearly 30 years. Now that it is here, he does not seem very enthusiastic about it. "We shall survive somehow," he says with a weary sigh. "The Saudis have promised to help, and France will not abandon us entirely. We have few people and almost no resources, but we will get by as long as our neighbors leave us alone...
...with the Moluccans; increasingly, he found himself being either mocked or scolded by the tough young terrorists. Two mediation attempts by respected leaders of the Moluccan community failed completely. Mrs. Josephine Soumokil, 64-year-old widow of the resistance hero executed by the Indonesians, visited the train along with Hassan Tan, 56, a former education and welfare minister in the Moluccan government in exile. Their presence encouraged the terrorists, who greeted them with a minimilitary parade. The visits proved an extra hardship to the hostages: they were forced to sit motionless during the two meetings, which lasted...
...from Angola, accompanied by 45 Cubans, who quickly departed once the Moroccans arrived on the scene. The Zaïre government claimed to have discovered a cache of 6,000 boxes of arms and ammunition-most of it Soviet-made. In Marrakesh, Morocco's King Hassan II insisted that his troops had found evidence of Cuban and white Angolan presence in Shaba. Despite the Carter Administration's cautious approach to events in Zaïre, a U.S. official in Washington admitted last week that "at the very least, the Russians are passively letting their Cuban clients encourage...
...thing, King Hassan said that he was ready to send additional troops to Zaïre. For another, some of the French planes that were involved in the airlift of the Moroccans have been shifted to bases in Senegal and Chad; they can return to Zaïre on short notice. Then there is also the possibility of reinforcements from neighboring Uganda, whose mercurial dictator, Idi Amin Dada, suddenly turned up in Kinshasa last week to assure le Guide of military help if needed. Mobutu's government is gradually winning moral backing from other African states. If there...
...Belgium, France and the U.S. sent token military supplies last month-and hoped the threat would just go away. It did not. The Katangese occupied much of the copper-rich Shaba area without opposition. Mobutu's big break came a fortnight ago when Morocco's King Hassan II, whose army is still fighting leftist guerrillas in the former colony of Spanish Sahara, decided that the time had come to bail out a friend. Egypt's President Sadat was also sympathetic because he is fearful of Soviet ambitions, particularly in the Sudan, which lies between Zaire and Egypt...