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...volatile Ahmed ben Bella ; so does the 45,000-man regular army commanded by lean, tuberculous Colonel Houari Boumedienne. In opposition are the 20.000 troops of Wilaya 4, which consists of Algiers and the surrounding countryside, and is commanded by a 28-year-old former medical student, Colonel Si Hassan, who has the same Marxist views as his archfoe, Boumedienne. The 10,000 seasoned guerrilla fighters of Wilaya j, covering the rugged mountains of Kaby-lia, also oppose Ben Bella and have promised to come to Si Hassan's aid if the Politburo and Colonel Boumedienne try to seize...
Though an heir would have been even more welcome, the birth of a daughter-his first child-to Morocco's dashing King Hassan II stirred the nation to stentorian rapture last week. Twenty-one gun salutes echoed through Rabat and Casablanca...
...Moroccan radio stations joyously broadcast the official palace communique: "His Majesty the King, may God glorify him, has just become the father of a girl, born in Rome." What raised eyebrows as well as hurrahs was that, until after the birth announcement, nobody had really been sure that Hassan, 33, was married...
...some cases, less than a year has elapsed since they appeared in the Atlantic or the Reporter; and even if one were to undertake the serious job of consistent editing the material needs, it would be difficult to establish an underlying point towards which all should tend. (Ihab Hassan tried to do this for post-war literature in Radical Innocence, but with only indifferent success...
...Abol Hassan Ebtehaj, 62, is a brilliant but irascible banker and economic planner whose frequent forceful criticism of Iranian corruption and autocracy outraged Cabinet ministers and even members of the Shah's entourage. With equal bluntness he attacked the U.S. for "spoiling us little children" with massive military aid, accused Washington of doling out economic assistance without sufficient planning. For years, Iranian officialdom tolerated him simply because Ebtehaj was essential to the country's economy. As chief of Iran's Plan Organization from 1954 to 1959, he initiated the country's ambitious land and industrial development...