Word: hassanal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reference to his position as strongman of the far-leftist Baath (Renaissance) Party, which has ruled Iraq since its successful 1968 coup against the former governing military clique. A handsome, dark-haired onetime lawyer, Saddam Hussein is officially deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, under Field Marshal Ahmed Hassan Bakr, chairman of the council and Iraq's President...
...last week. The P.L.O. leader was not wearing his customary checkered kaffiyeh and dark glasses, but was dressed in an olive-drab military uniform and had a small pistol strapped to his belt. Over mint-flavored tea and pastries in the white guest villa that Morocco's King Hassan had provided him, Arafat smiled and chuckled often, his quick, jerky gestures reflecting boundless energy. Tired? Not at all, he said. "I only get tired when I don't work." Among the points he made in the interview...
Running simultaneously with their struggle to preserve water in the summer drought is the two brothers' inner struggle for the same woman. Bahar (Hulya Kocygigit) loves Hassan and is even willing to forego the man's traditional dowry payment to marry him. Ossman wants Bahar, not only for his own gratification but for work in his fields. Once Hassan is in jail, Ossman forces himself on Bahar. The film moves slowly towards the brothers' inevitable face-off and an abrupt, violent denoument...
...hero, Hassan, is a stylized creation--one never learns where he acquires his values, or why he follows his brother's will so cravenly in the beginning. And through a large portion of the film's middle he's away in jail. His calm dispassionate heroism doesn't help elucidate the tensions within him between tradition and new values...
...tense situation was not helped when Moroccan authorities uncovered two plots, by a Black September group and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, to assassinate moderate leaders in Rabat. Among the intended victims: Egypt's Sadat, Jordan's King Hussein, Morocco's King Hassan and Saudi Arabia's King Faisal...