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Having already destroyed 145 schools, the terrorists last week blew up Algiers city hall and part of the 2,400-bed Mustapha Hospital...
...Lawgiver, but he beheaded grand viziers right and left, even had his two ablest sons murdered. The one remaining son eventually became Selim the Sot, the first of a long line of drunkards and degenerates that ruled until after World War I, when the sultanate fell and the great Mustapha Kemal Ataturk took over the rule of Turkey...
Died. Si M'Barek ben Mustapha el Bekkai, 54, first Premier of independent Morocco (1956-58), who fought for France in World War II as a lieutenant colonel of cavalry, losing a leg in the Ardennes, later fought against France in the struggle to end foreign rule in his country; of a heart attack; in Rabat...
...Azzam's pidgin Italian). But the words do not matter. They merely complement the international melody, which tinkles like goat bells near the White Nile and clicks like the heels of an Andalusian gypsy. Scored by Azzam for bongos, flute, tambourine, echo chamber and his own voice, Mustapha is adapted from an Egyptian student song, but owes much of its popularity to electricity. When he plays the song at nightclub engagements or recording sessions, onetime Electrician Azzam surrounds himself on the bandstand with an impressive bank of hi-fi equipment, places a microphone before each member of his five...
...band caught the last ship when the Lebanese civil war broke in 1958. In less than two years, Azzam & Co. had driven the Continent wild on Mustapha' s "fox-oriental" mixture. From then on, every thing was pure tomato sauce...