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Hidden Pills. Dismissed from his post as vice president and commander of the armed forces in the wake of the war, Amer was arrested last month with 50 other officers on charges of plotting against Nasser. As Nasser's semiofficial mouthpiece Al Ahram rather fancifully reported it, Amer had planned to seize command of Egyptian troops on the Suez Canal, demand full reinstatement for himself and the 800 officers who were arrested or sacked as part of Nasser's postwar effort to find a scapegoat for his shattering defeat. If Nasser refused, the story went, Amer would march...
...mounting disenchantment with President Johnson, it seemed to many left-wing groups that the time was ripe to coalesce the nation's discontent into a third national political party. But when 200 radical organizations tried to do so last week in Chicago at a convention of the Nation al Conference for New Politics, the result was a shambles...
...taking "health cures," talking with other Arab leaders or simply salting away their money in foreign banks. Four others were missing-either kidnaped by nationalist rebels or in hiding. That left Hussein Ali Bayoomi, the Information Minister, as almost the lone government official in the deserted federal capital of Al Ittihad. "The government is finished," said Bayoomi. "It is gone with the wind...
...Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who once backed the N.L.F. which has always been strong on terrorism but weak in leadership. In 1966, Nasser switched his support to the newer and more political FLOSY. Today, the N.L.F.'s only visible leaders are its secretary general, Qahtan al Shaabi, 47, an engineer who once served as director of agriculture in one of the federation's tiny sultanates, and his hard-eyed young nephew, Feisal. What outside support they have, if any, remains their secret. FLOSY, on the other hand, boasts a stable of well-known politicians and administrators...
...Boston Red Sox can hit, but their pitching is so shaky that Manager Dick Williams is talking about using his lone ace, Righthander Jim Lonborg (record: 19-7), every two days. The Minnesota Twins and the Detroit Tigers need heavy slugging from their superstars, Harmon Killebrew and Al Kaline. Yet as of last week, Minnesota's Killebrew had clouted only three home runs in his last 68 times at bat, and Detroit's Kaline had collected only four base hits in his last 24 trips to the plate...