Word: abboud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many unspectacular ways, the six-year military dictatorship of Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud was a Pan-African success story. When he seized power in 1958, the Sudan had suffered under three bungling governments in less than three years of independence...
Pledging his regime to "realization of the country's paramount interests," Abboud dragged the country out of economic chaos. He brought in massive industrial capital, pushed ahead with ambitious hydroelectric projects, doubled the Sudan's rich cotton lands by expanding the vast, British-built Gezira irrigation complex...
...Sudanese, historically renowned for their martial prowess, revered Abboud as the greatest warrior of them all. Sandhurst-trained, anglicized down to his swagger stick and Bond Street shoes, Abboud in World War II led the Sudan Defense Force into battle against Rommel's Afrika Korps, wound up with two dozen combat ribbons on his chest...
...benign, incorruptible, father figure, Abboud alone could have rallied his freedom-loving, free-and-easy country men to his own austere goals of discipline and diligence...
...political parties, the Sudanese arose barehanded and, in a week of bloodshed, drove the military back to their barracks. By the time it was all over, at least 30 Sudanese had lost their lives and parliamentary rule was restored. Only one vestige remained from the old Abboud regime: the portly, dusky figure of Ibrahim Abboud, 64, who stayed on as President, though shorn of effective power...