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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Age 20-Known as a leading anti-British cadet at Cairo's Royal Military Academy, Nasser graduated as a second lieutenant and was sent to command a platoon at a post up the Nile. It was the year of Munich, the year of Arab-Jewish rioting in Palestine, of U.S. company oil discoveries in Saudi Arabia...
...Age 26-Instructor at the military academy, Nasser married the daughter of a Cairo rug merchant. Nasser saw no World War II action. The British had reoccupied Egypt, ringed Farouk's palace with tanks, made the King accept their nominee for wartime Premier...
...Age 16-A student at Cairo's Al Nahda secondary school, Nasser organized schoolboy riots, about this time ordered an assassination (presumably of an Egyptian political leader) that narrowly failed to come off, and lay awake shuddering on his own salvation. That year the British refused to grant home rule to India; Gandhi went on a hunger strike, and Nehru to jail...
...Age 30-Left Cairo staff college to fight in 1948 Palestine war. Wounded in the shoulder, he held out in "Faluja pocket" till Cairo stopped fighting. Bitterly convinced that the real enemy was the rotten regime back home, he organized his first Free Officers' secret meeting at Faluja...
...Age 34-Having personally recruited 700 Free Officers, he led the army revolt overthrowing Farouk, and wielded power through an older, pipe-smoking front man, General Mohammed Naguib, who is now under house arrest. That year Dwight Eisenhower was elected President of the U.S., and Mossadegh, having nationalized Iran's oil, was driving Iran to bankruptcy...