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...party meetings). Though he is a leftist, Numeiry is an intense foe of the local Communists-partly because they oppose his plan to link the Sudan in a federation with Libya, Egypt and Syria, and partly because he is convinced that they want to undermine him. Communist Leader Abdel Khalek Mahgoub wisely kept out of sight last week as sympathetic army officers mounted their coup. But there were reports that he masterminded the coup from the Bulgarian embassy in Khartoum...
...know," Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser mused during an Arab meeting in Cairo shortly before his death last year, "I rather like Gaddafi. He reminds me of myself when I was that age." Not even the young Nasser, however, was a hell raiser to compare with Muammar Gaddafi, who at 28 is leader of the revolutionary council that rules oil-rich Libya. Born in a nomad's tent, schooled in the army, thrust to power in a coup that overthrew Libya's aging King Idris two years ago, Gaddafi stands unchallenged as the enfant terrible of Arab...
Most behavioral scientists agree with University of Montreal Criminologist Ezzat Abdel Fattah, who contends that "there are people who attract the criminal as the lamb attracts the wolf." Some of these victims are masochistic or depressed; Criminologist Hans von Hentig described them as longing "lustfully" for injury...
...anything white in the American or European sense. "O Allah O Shango (rulers of our ancient cities) O Osiris, we will be closer to you from now on,'' he cries. Elsewhere he declares, "Do not talk Marx or Lenin or Trotsky when you speak of political thinkers. Abdel Rahman, Nkrumah, Sekoti Touré, Mao, Du-Bois, Fanon, Nyerere, Garvey, Lumumba, Malcolm, Guevara, Elijah, Abu Dekr will plot, have already plotted...
...overnight guest in his home in the village of Majdal Shams. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan once dined with Kanj in the village. Kanj was so intent on maintaining good relations with Israel that when younger members of the community held a memorial march for Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser last autumn, the sheik publicly chastised them...