Word: hassanal
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...King died last February without redeeming his daughter's pledge. It was up to the new King, Aisha's 32-year-old brother Hassan II, to see her married. Hassan II acted swiftly. He sent word that it was his pleasure for Aisha and her two sisters, Malika, 28, and Fatima Zorah, 32, to marry expeditiously; the choice of husbands was left to them. Each woman promptly said yes to a suitor. Malika, who runs the Red Crescent Society (Moslem equivalent of the Red Cross), became engaged to Rabat's smooth Ambassador to France, Mohammed ben Abdallah...
Engaged. Princess Lalla Aisha, 30, Morocco's great female emancipator (TIME cover, Nov. 11, 1957 ), sister of King Hassan II; and Hassan Al Yakoubi, 26, prosperous landowner; at the royal palace in Rabat, in a double ceremony that saw her sleek, similarly Westernized sister, Princess Lalla Malika, 23, betrothed to Mohammed Cherkaoui, 40, Morocco's ambassador-designate to France...
Badr's rival is one of the Imam's few surviving brothers, Seif el Islam el Hassan, 56, a mild and moral man who is considered pro-Western. Since the 1955 revolt, he has been on the sidelines of Yemeni politics, serving in New York on his country's U.N. delegation...
...Imam, who apparently has reservations about his son's admiration for Nas ser and two years ago tossed out the teachers and technicians Badr had imported from Egypt, last week called Hassan home from New York. Hassan has been given no job yet, but the ulema favor him over Badr. And on his way home Hassan spent four days in Saudi Arabia talking with King Saud, who is alarmed by the 2,000 Red Chinese and Russian technicians Badr imported, and feels Hassan is the man to prevent a Communist takeover of his neighbor...
...Ministry of Education alone, 643 officials were fired, and 370 others were pried away from their bureaucratic desks and ordered out into the provinces to teach people how to read. In the Ministry of Agriculture, new Minister Hassan Arsanjani ordered a fresh topographic survey of government-owned lands, preparatory to parceling them out to landless peasants. As for Iran's big landowners, Premier Amini personally warned: "I do not expect slow action from you either." A long-ignored law restricting individual family holdings to 1,000 acres of irrigated, and 2,000 acres of nonirrigated land was dusted...