Word: aminations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adviser on juvenile delinquency, started running the moment he was sworn in last week as the State Department's Chief of Protocol, succeeding Lloyd Hand, who resigned to enter California politics. He had been in office less than an hour when he presented Sudan's new ambassador, Amin Ahmed Hussein, to the President. Apart from preparing for Mrs. Gandhi's visit, Symington was also busily readying himself to handle the myriad problems of the 113 foreign mission chiefs in Washington-his new "constituency," as Johnson called...
...long-turbulent Syria, no one has yet been able to topple the ruling Baath (Renaissance) Party. To be sure, there has been a dizzying chain of uprisings within the governing hierarchy itself, but they always left the top man intact: Strongman Amin Hafez, 43. Last week the party went through its 15th major reshuffle since seizing power in 1963. Only this time, Hafez himself was shuffled right...
...shift grew out of a split in Syria's ruling Pan-Arab Baath Party between General Salah Jadid, leader of a powerful clique of pro-Peking officers, and Strongman General Amin Hafez, top dog in Syria since 1963. At the Casablanca conference of Arab leaders last September, Hafez pledged Syria to an agreement not to meddle in other states' internal affairs. Objecting, the Jadid group blamed a "right-wing reactionism" for the moderating tendencies in other Arab nations, argued for Syrian leadership to restore the "progressive Arab socialist outlook...
...Egyptians tell it, Amin met Odeli at least once a week, and was well paid for his work. A man with expensive appetites, he was living far beyond his $14,000 newspaper salary, and in addition had transferred thousands of dollars to his twin brother Ali in London. The end came when Amin rented a summer villa overlooking the Mediterranean at Alexandria. Police planted intelligence agents among his servants, closed in when Odell, who had rented a villa nearby, showed up for lunch fortnight ago. Amin was jailed, and Odell was questioned for an hour, forced to turn over what...
Whisked Away. In Washington, the State Department denied the story. It said that Odell, 36, a onetime Defense Department "analyst," was definitely not a spy. Neither was Amin. As for the confiscated notes, they had been written by Odell, not Amin, and reflected "conversations with several people on general matters of interest." So saying, State whisked Odell back to Washington "for reassignment" so fast that he had to leave his wife and three children in Cairo...