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Cairo radio announced last week the death by suicide of Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, the onetime second in command to Gamal Abdel Nasser be fore he fell into disgrace over Egypt's defeat in the Arab-Israeli war. At the same time, the radio announced that Amer, 47, had already been buried in his home village of Astal, 150 miles south of Cairo. Whether Amer jumped or was pushed into eternity, the news of his "suicide" added new tension and suspicion in a country already seething dangerously with plots, resentments and repression...
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...
Delegates to the five-day meeting, 2,000 strong, ranged from Trotskyites to Maoists, from bearded antiwar pro testers to barefoot poverty workers. Their slogan : "Don't Mourn for Amer ica -Organize!" Martin Luther King urged that next year's elections be turned into a "referendum on the war" - and Pediatrician-Protester Dr. Benjamin Spock declared his willingness to head the ticket. Such ambitions were quickly doused in a power grab by 400 militant Negro delegates...
...invitation was for dinner at the presidential villa, and Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, former Vice President of Egypt, ex-commander of its armed forces, accepted with pleasure...
Died. Esther Forbes, 76, author who breathed fresh life into Colonial Amer ica in eleven well-received books, won the 1942 Pulitzer history prize for her Paul Revere and the World He Lived In (while waiting in North Boston to start his famous ride, he realized that he'd forgotten his spurs, sent his dog home with a note asking that they be brought to him), a year later wrote Johnny Tremain, a historical novel aimed at teen-agers but flavorful enough for adults; of rheumatic heart disease; in Worcester, Mass...