Word: abboud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shakespeare & Shelters. To the White House also came the eighth visiting head of state this year. He was General Ferik Ibrahim Abboud, who took control of the Sudan-Africa's largest nation-in a bloodless 1958 coup. Abboud, Moslem-born -and English-trained, is a genial man and an avid gardener, who leads his nation on a careful path between East and West. He visited Moscow last summer, attended the recent neutralist conclave in Belgrade. "You have set an example of a country with eight neighbors, all of whom live at peace with you and with each other," said...
...Abboud's visit produced a historical footnote. After a state banquet, the Kennedys led Abboud, a lover of theatricals, and other guests into the East Room of the White House, where, on an improvised stage, the American Shakespeare Festival troupers presented excerpts from Macbeth and four other plays. It was Shakespeare's first visit inside the White House, although earlier troupers had declaimed the Bard for Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft on the White House lawn...
...aspiring to be the "conscience of the world," the neutralists as a whole have all too often seemed curiously reluctant to make any of the moral judgments on Russian behavior that conscience would seem to dictate. President Ibrahim Abboud of the Sudan criticized the French for nuclear testing in the Sahara, did not mention Russia. Sukarno hacked away on the old anticolonialist theme. Only Burma's U Nu seemed willing to give the West an even break. "Let us realize a start has been made toward coexistence," he urged. "There is a growing recognition of personal integrity rather than...
...Ceylon's Mme. Bandaranaike, India's Nehru and Lebanon's Saeb Salaam. Presidents: Cuba's Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado, Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios, Ghana's Nkrumah, Indonesia's Sukarno, Mali's Keita, Somalia's Adben Abdullah Osman, the Sudan's Ibrahim Abboud, Tunisia's Bourguiba and the U.A.R.'s Nasser...