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...What Hassan did not know was that rebellious junior officers in his 50,000-man army were planning to crash the party and topple his pro-Western regime. His guests were hardly seated for lunch beside Skhirat's swimming pool when some 30 truckloads of mutineers rolled up to the palace and began raking it with machine guns, grenades and mortars...
THOUGH he was once one of the more notorious playboys of the Arab world, Morocco's King Hassan II quickly proved himself a sober ruler when he acceded to the throne more than ten years ago. But the slim, dark-eyed monarch still enjoys a good bash, and he decided to celebrate in style when he turned 42 last week. Accordingly, he invited 500 guests, including Cabinet Ministers, generals and the diplomatic corps, to join him at Skhirat, one of his ten palaces, which is situated at a seaside spa ten miles outside Rabat...
...jail last week. They included former Vice President Ali Sabry, whose dismissal by Sadat three weeks ago began the whole battle for control, as well as Gomaa and former War Minister General Mohammed Fawzi and ex-Minister for Presidential Affairs Sami Sharaf. Gomaa's intelligence chief, Major General Hassan Talaat-who is rumored to have taken notorious delight in watching suspects being tortured-was hospitalized after Sadat's Republican Guards gave him a measure of the same treatment. Most of the other government officials who were arrested are being held in a large underground basement of the Public...
...SHAWKAT HASSAN...
White Man's Opiate. Dr. Karl Deissler, medical director of Synanon, thinks that methadone alone deprives its users of the will to deal with the problems that led them into drugs. Hassan Jeru-Ahmed, who runs the Black Man's Development Center in Washington, D.C., shares that skepticism. Describing methadone as a "white man's opiate," he uses it to ease withdrawal, not for maintenance. Other critics question the wisdom of allowing an individual to remain dependent upon any drug...