Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...42nd birthday at a seaside party (see box). The coup was put down in a matter of hours, and life quickly returned to normal in Morocco under the strong hand of General Mohammed Oufkir, 51, a tough, uncompromising Berber who is Hassan's Interior Minister and most loyal general. By week's end, Oufkir's men had reportedly arrested some 900 cadets...
...aimed at the King, that the royal palace had been occupied and that your august life was in danger. It was to save you that we entered the palace." ∙ The battle shifted as suddenly as it had begun. Some cadets left the palace to seize installations in Rabat. Loyal soldiers arrived; outgunned, the remaining rebels surrendered. The bystanders stood up warily to survey a scene that had abruptly changed from carnival to carnage. In the 2½hour battle, 92 of the guests and royal household had been killed, including the three French doctors and Belgian Ambassador Marcel Dupret...
...Hassan forces, under Interior Minister General Mohammed Oufkir, quickly rallied. A gaunt, laconic Berber from the Atlas Mountains, Oufkir has been unswervingly loyal to Hassan. Four years ago, after the Moroccan leftist Mehdi Ben Barka disappeared in France, the De Gaulle government tried and convicted Oufkir in absentia for murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment...
...Chicago's magistrates have long been known as "precinct captain-judges," meaning that they handle relatively minor judicial matters and usually earn their renewable one-year appointments through loyal service to the Democratic and Republican political machines. No one minded much until a new state constitution, adopted last December, automatically elevated all Illinois magistrates in office on July 1, 1971, to associate circuit court judgeships-complete with four-year terms, a salary raise from $23,000 to $32,500 and considerably expanded judicial responsibility. Appalled at the potential impact on the administration of justice, the activist Chicago Council...
...right to speak out on public issues is being tested in the case of Massachusetts Judge George A. Sullivan Jr. After considerable soul searching about the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, he came to the conclusion that he could "no longer accept that keeping silent is 'being a loyal American.' In my opinion, my silence is aiding and abetting a felony." As a result, he joined 3,000 other demonstrators in a peaceful but admittedly illegal sit-in last May to stop Government workers from getting to their jobs at Boston's John F. Kennedy Federal Building...