Word: alie
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...East experts who accompanied him to Cairo were not there merely to mourn Nasser. The Russians may be hoping to influence the selection of his successor; the day after Nasser was buried, Kosygin and Soviet First Deputy Defense Minister Matvei Zakharov discussed matters with Sadat and former Prime Minister Ali Sabry, who is Russia's foremost advocate in Egypt...
...Nasser began to weaken last week, his family and special friends were summoned to his bedside. Heikal and Sadat were there, together with Defense Minister Mohammed Fawzi and two old companions from the 1952 revolutionary days of the Free Officers Movement, Hussein Shafei and Ali Sabry. After Nasser died, it fell to Sadat as Acting President to break the news to the nation. He waited three hours, while a red alert was flashed to put army units on guard against a possible Israeli attack. Then a weeping Sadat went on television to say: "The U.A.R., the Arab nation and humanity...
...there is a "Russian candidate," it is Ali Sabry, 52, onetime Secretary General of Nasser's Arab Socialist Union (A.S.U.) and "honorary general" in charge of Egypt's Russian-built air-defense system. Sabry is a former Minister of Presidential Affairs, ex-Prime Minister and Egypt's chief liaison with the Soviet Union. The Soviets insisted that Sabry accompany Nasser to Moscow in July. They would clearly like to continue the relationship, which helps make Sabry the most powerful man in Egypt today. But he is far from being the most popular, especially among the military...
...bard of the boxing world, Cassius Clay, otherwise known as Muhammad Ali, last week made it back into the ring, although still barred from professional competition for evading the draft. The former world heavyweight champion won all three of his short exhibition bouts in Atlanta, but three years of battling the courts had obviously taken its toll. The speed of his punches and his Ali-shuffle were somewhat slowed, as was his tongue. Admitted the usually loquacious Clay afterward: "I'm not in shape...
Fortune frowned on a surprising catalogue of prominent people last week. Among the losers: Muhammad Ali, alias Cassius Clay, who lost a unanimous decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to let him go to Canada for a fight with Joe Frazier; Lady Bird Johnson, who was fined $15 by Austin, Texas, police for failing to yield the right of way; Ray Fosse, Cleveland Indians catcher, who suffered burns on his foot when a cherry bomb was thrown from the stands during a game...