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...such electronic fashion did the current heir of Morocco's three-century-old Alouite dynasty bring home a chilling lesson to his subjects: any who rebel against him will be shot, perhaps without trial. Only two days before their deaths last week, the condemned officers had led 1,400 army cadets in an abortive coup while Hassan and 500 guests celebrated the King's 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...
...Libya's mercurial Colonel Muammar Gaddafi fooled. There is no evidence to indicate that Libya had any advance knowledge of the plot. Nonetheless, Gaddafi earned Hassan's enmity by immediately offering ground, armor and air support to what he thought were his ideological brothers in Morocco. They were hardly that. Medbouh, 44, was a wealthy satrap, not a struggling junior officer as Gaddafi had been before Libya's 1969 coup. General Mustapha Amehrach, 48, overall head of the military academies, kept a villa in Rabat, a beach house by the sea, an apartment in Paris...
...attempted coup against the King of Morocco, the scene at his summer palace was one of sheer chaos. Only last week did a clear picture emerge as guests at the King's birthday party told their stories. Herewith an account pieced together by TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn...
...sort of day that has made Morocco a magnet for Western tourists. A hot sun blazed over Skhirat, where King Hassan II's rambling white summer palace is set amid oaks, poplars and eucalypti beside the Atlantic, and cooling breezes wafted in from the ocean. By Moslem custom, no women guests were present for the King's 42nd birthday party. But among the 500 male guests were ambassadors, generals and ministers. There were also the royal shirtmaker, shoemaker and tailor (all Italians), and four physicians (three French and one Austrian), who were in Morocco to give Hassan...
...Long Boy's favorites is to arrive in a small town, buy up a supply of white morocco-bound Bibles and check newspaper obituaries for the name of a new widow in a good neighborhood. Having affixed the lady's name on the Bible cover in gold leaf, he sends Addie up to her door. The Good Book, of course, is a C.O.D. present ordered by the deceased. It is rare that the mourning widow does not cry "tears big as horse turds" while handing over...