Word: mustapha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order was broadcast: Go home. A political storm had blown up in the hot Sahara wind. Shortly afterward, as army Land Rovers equipped with machine guns appeared on street corners, the nature of the tempest became clear. Officers of the 15,000-man Mauritanian army, led by Lieut. Colonel Mustapha Ould Mohammed Salek, 42, had overthrown the regime of President Moktar Ould Daddah, 53, the mild-mannered strongman who had ruled the poverty-stricken country of 1.5 million Muslims since it gained independence from France...
...Middle East peace equation, TIME Correspondents Karsten Prager and William Marmon were granted a rare interview with Syria's President Hafez Assad. Prager also talked to two of Assad's closest advisers: Major General Naji Jamil, head of the Syrian air force, and Major General Mustapha Tlas, the Defense Minister. Following an old Syrian gift-giving custom, Jamil presented Prager with a small air-force pin, smilingly suggesting that it might make it easier for Prager to be a military correspondent in Syria in the unhappy event of more fighting in the area. Was there a more ominous...
...prognosis is not good; Syria last week not only attacked Jerusalem and Washington as part of what Defense Minister Mustapha Tlas called "our enemies, including U.S. imperialism and its agents and traitors," but Damascus also apparently included Egypt-for signing a Kissinger agreement-among the traitors. To blunt such attacks, Kissinger at the U.N. threw out a new proposal for an informal meeting of all Middle East "nations." By inference, that would exclude the Palestine Liberation Organization, but at the same time it could draw the Soviets once more into intricate discussions on such matters as the Golan Heights...
...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 and two farms...