Word: sultanate
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...other hand, Sultan Selim I is said to have liked coffee so much that he hanged two Persian doctors who said it was bad for the health-a fate that countless physicians since then have narrowly escaped. When the Turks raised the siege of Vienna, they left sacks of coffee behind, and an enterprising Polish defender of Christendom hastened to beat his sword into a percolator by grabbing the coffee and opening the first of hundreds of Viennese coffeehouses. Charles II of England called coffeehouses "seminaries of sedition," and in France they were just that. Rousseau, Voltaire, Robespierre, Marat...
...taken a calculated gamble: if Syria could ride out the crisis without returning to police-state methods, democracy would be on its way. While Shishekly lingered and hoped, the opposition prepared. In June the ousted politicos - extreme right-wing ers, moderates, left Socialists, and the old Druze chieftain, Sultan Pasha el Atrash - met secretly, organized the Popular Bloc, and agreed to bury their hatchet -in Shishekly's back. Still Shishekly did nothing. Three weeks ago, emboldened, the Popular Bloc plotted the final act, the overthrow of Shishekly. The climax was set for the night of Wednesday...
Back to GHQ. Last week, when students at Horns began rioting on schedule, and old Sultan Pasha el Atrash called in his subchieftains to plot trouble, Shishekly abandoned his gamble. He left the presidential palace, went to his desk at army GHQ and decreed martial...
French Anger. Both the Moroccans and the Spanish are mad at France for summarily expelling Sultan Sidi Moham med ben Youssef in favor of his more malleable relative. Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa (TiME, Aug. 31). This action has left some devout Moroccans closing their Friday prayers with blessings on the new Sultan, others petitioning God in favor of the old, and the puzzled ambiguously praying for "Sidi Mohammed" and leaving the choice to Allah...
...Spanish side, the Sultan's representative is pliant, unventuresome, 43-year-old Caliph Sidi Muley Hassan ben el Mehed. cousin of the exiled sultan and nephew of the new. The Spanish have persuaded the caliph to condemn the French change of rulers, but he is also believed to have secretly telephoned his congratulations to the new. French-backed Sultan...