Word: moulay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he assumed the throne in 1961, just before the evacuation of French colonial military forces negotiated by his father Mohammed V, the new King told his people: "The man you knew as Prince Moulay Hassan no longer exists." He adopted a quieter life, refused to set up an official harem, and married Lalla Latifa, a commoner who has borne him two sons and three daughters. Hassan, who earned a law degree at the University of Bordeaux, has written three different constitutions, each of which guarantees freedom of the press, speech and religion. Such freedoms have receded as his reign...
Sandwiched between Na Na on belmbau and Moulay Ari Hafid on dumbeg on the old Gato Barbleri albums is the fine print name of planist Lonnie Liston Smith. Occasionally in those early takes, between Gato's blasts and the percussionists' meanderings, you could make out what sounded like some pretty sweet music coming from Smith's direction. Apparently the word got to Gato that Smith was doing good things with the plano and it wasn't long before the saxophonist boosted him to "featuring" status on his latest albums. The logical extension of all this is happening this weekend...
...that if military justice did not finish him off, his illness would. As Hassan related it, the plan called for the plane to be shot down at sea "so as to leave no trace." With the deaths of the King, three of his children and his only brother, Prince Moulay Abdullah-all of whom were on the plane-Oufkir would have had dictatorial powers as head of a regency in the name of nine-year-old Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed. In fact, he had planned to pick up the child, who was vacationing in the mountains, immediately after the attack...
...Freedom Fighters of the Moroccan air force flew out to meet it. Suddenly, the aerial escort opened fire with rockets and machine guns on the royal plane. After two passes they had damaged the cockpit, cut hydraulic lines, smashed instruments and blown out a rear door. As Prince Moulay Abdullah, the King's brother related later, the quick-thinking Hassan called the attacking pilots on the airliner's radio and told them that he was the flight engineer. The King was "mortally wounded," he said, and the airliner's two pilots were dead; he would attempt...
...Guests were pushed against a wall and shot by impromptu firing squads. The King's brother, Prince Moulay Abdullah, was hit in the arm during one such volley, then left by his would-be executioners when he fell and played dead. But it became evident that the King was meant to be spared. At one point cadets burst into his sanctuary and ordered him outside with the other surviving guests. A young soldier, nervously fingering the trigger of his rifle, took Hassan aside Alone, he kissed the King's hand. Hassan was astounded. "We are cadets...