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...U.A.R. and the Arab World," an international Seminar Forum, will be given on Wednesday at 3 p.m. Mounir Nassif, the Foreign News Editor of the Akhbar El Yom Publishing House, will moderate...
...Khrushchev hoped to cow Nasser, the campaign was a failure. Snapped the daily Al Akhbar: "Arab public opinion is not ready to take lessons on freedom from the organizers of the blood baths in Mosul and Kirkuk" (where Iraqi Communists massacred their opponents two years ago). Columnist Mohammed el Tabee vowed: "We shall not tolerate any country's becoming the gate through which Communism can penetrate into the heart of the Arab world." Rallying behind Nasser, four members of the Arab League -Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Yemen and Jordan-denounced Russia for "interfering in the domestic affairs of an Arab...
...unorthodox marriage, Toni last month embraced the Moslem faith, has begun studying Arabic. Hussein also gave her an Arab name, Muna al Hussein-the Wish of Hussein. Radio Cairo and Radio Baghdad have thus far studiously avoided reporting the news of the engagement, but Cairo's Al Akhbar was less polite. "The engagement will lead to an acute crisis in Jordan, and a loss of popularity for Hussein in the Arab world. His engagement to a British girl shows Hussein is searching for a warmth and affection he did not find in the hearts of the Jordanian people...
...Slight Misunderstanding. Catching wind of Shaker's maneuvers, the Amins coldly passed word that Akhbar's once fat profits had dwindled to the vanishing point since Nasser's nationalization. There would be no raise, they said. Enraged at this "reneging," a crowd of infuriated typesetters pursued the brothers to their ninth-floor office, besieged them with shouts of "Swindlers! Stealers!" Police drove them away. Soon after, Nasser barred both the Amins and Shaker from the Akhbar building...
Cairo rumor now has it that Nasser would like to scuttle Gumhuria and turn Akhbar into a kind of Egyptian Pravda. But most Egyptian newsmen argued that in the end Nasser would recognize that he needed the Amins and their lively journalism to get his own message across. Such was obviously the hope of the Amins themselves, who scrupulously refrained from any criticism of Nasser, would only say cautiously: "There has been something of a misunderstanding...