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...first nation to recognize the new republic was Russia, and Khrushchev bombastically cabled Sallal: "Any act of aggression against Yemen will be considered an act of aggression against the Soviet Union." No one yet seems to be threatening Yemen except the late Imam's relatives. Prince Hassan, Badr's uncle and chief of Yemen's U.N. delegation, took off from New York to crush the rebellion...
Colonel Sallal boasted that if Prince Hassan set foot in Yemen he would be slaughtered. Then, shrewdly, the Colonel ordered immediate and substantial pay raises for the 12,000 troops of Yemen's ragtag army...
...hiding and seized control of the casbah in rooftop fighting. From Oran, where lie had fled four days earlier to avoid arrest by Wilaya 4 troops, Ahmed ben Bella slipped into Algiers, dressed in woman's clothing. There, in return for a ceasefire, Rebel Leader Colonel Hassan agreed to evacuate the city and to confine his routed, discredited forces to one of the suburbs...
Tradition demands that the King of Morocco have at least one wife-he is entitled to four-before he accedes to the throne. Thus loyal Moroccans took it for granted at the time that sportive Bachelor Hassan had quietly been married in the five days between the death of his father, Mohammed V, and his own religious coronation in March 1961. Since it is also customary for royal wives to remain in the background, the marriage was never announced or acknowledged. "If the King has a child," purred a Moroccan diplomat last week, "that is his personal affair." In Rome...
Born. To King Hassan II, 33, monarch of Morocco, and his wife, Latifa, 15, daughter of a prominent Berber family: their first child, a girl; in Rome (see THE WORLD...