Word: hassanal
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...tribes before Spain took over the region in 1884, but had not established "territorial sovereignty." Keenly disappointed, Morocco showed no intention of acquiescing in the ruling, and at week's end its troops were massed along a 140-mile border with the Spanish Sahara. Morocco's King Hassan II vowed to send 350,000 people, including 30,000 women-armed only with the Koran-to "liberate" the territory. Meanwhile, Spain, which still has control, warned that its troops in the Sahara, estimated at 15,000 to 30,000, would fire back if fired upon. Algeria had thousands...
...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...
...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...