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Born. To Hoda Nasser, 23, eldest daughter of United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Hattem Sadek, 24, a presidential aide: their first child, a daughter; in Cairo...
...Draft & a Plea. Jordan's Arab partners further inflamed the tense atmosphere by issuing repeated calls for action. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser blasted Hussein for refusing to arm frontier villages-a step he began to take at week's end. In Cairo, the Palestine Liberation Organization called for Jordanian police and security forces to join the riots rather than repel them. Syria bombarded Jordan with broadcasts charging that Hussein's Cabinet and army were in revolt and that Jordan's "liberation" had begun...
...Meeting in New Delhi, Yugoslavia, the United Arab Republic and India urged an immediate end to U.S. bombing of the North and withdrawal of all foreign-meaning U.S.-troops. Asked if that applied to the North Vietnamese as well as the Americans, U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel Nasser smiled blandly. "The North Vietnamese," he purred, "say they do not have any forces in South Viet...
...Nonalign? The question of unity was also on the agenda in New Delhi, where the leaders of the world's three original "nonaligned" nations met last week. Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and India's Indira Gandhi did not quite know why they were getting together. Nostalgically recalling the good old days, Nasser remarked that the world was no longer so sharply split between East and West. "Our world is still governed by strife," he added, as if to suggest that this, at least, was reason to gather...
...only because his Arab clients deserted him. For one thing, soaring interest rates have lately made Europe a more profitable haven for cash. Also, Intra became involved in the bitter feud between Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, leader of the Middle East's conservatives. When Nasser-financed newspapers in Lebanon attacked Feisal, Saudi and Kuwaiti sheiks yanked $30 million out of Intra in one month. On top of that, Lebanon's three-year-old central bank fumbled its chance to prevent the crisis. Asked to help Intra, the bank stalled...