Word: abdalla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egyptian consul general in Jerusalem was deep in last year's plot to overthrow Jordan's King Hussein. Egyptian agents worked mightily, and unsuccessfully, to throw down Abdalla Khalil, doughty pro-Western Premier of the newly independent Sudan. Two years ago an Egyptian embassy "messenger" was convicted of trying to assassinate Iraqi leaders. Last year an Egyptian colonel named Ali Khashaba organized and financed a plot to kill Saudi Arabia's King Saud. Last week the U.S. Government published a sheaf of intelligence reports of Nasser's doings in Lebanon, where Moslem rebels have been getting...
Split Claims. A month ago Nasser fired off a note to the Sudanese government of Premier Abdalla Khalil demanding that the Sudan immediately hand over to Egypt 1) a 6,700-sq. mi. triangle of desert and scrub hills around Halaib on the Red Sea, 2) a 90-sq. mi. finger of land in the Nile River valley near the interior town of Wadi Haifa. Actually, Nasser had a legal case for his claim. After Lord Kitchener's forces (including a young subaltern lancer named Winston Churchill) defeated the Sudan's Dervishes at Omdurman in 1898, Egypt...