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...risk that King Saud himself took in doing so. Saudi security police in Riyadh arrested a gang of ex-Palestinian and Egyptian plotters armed with guns, grenades and explosives. The men admitted planning the King's assassination, and were said to have implicated Egypt's military attaché, Colonel Ali Khashaba. The King's reaction was to kick out a flock of Egyptians and ex-Palestinians (who in his illiterate country dominate administration services and the schools). Then he backed Hussein to the limit...
General Abu Nuwar, a shifty-eyed playboy with little command experience, is a crony of Syria's pro-Soviet strongman, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj. They had met when they were fellow military attachés in Paris, now talked daily by telephone. Against this impressive lineup, the young King could count only on loyal forces inside the army and the support of Bedouin chiefs...
Realistic Cubans-especially leaders in business and the professions-look to the army, rather than the students or Castro, to bring Batista down. Many hopes form around Colonel Ramón Barquin, longtime Cuban military attaché in Washington, who last year tried and failed to bring off a coup. He is still in prison, but as many as 150 of his secret followers among the officer class are free, and resentful of the army's role as Batista's bloodletter...
...report added that college sex morality is somewhat better than the academic morality. The document reported, however, that students at Cornell "attach little importance to chastity as a criterion for choosing a mate...
...tiny Lebanon, most prosperous of Arab countries, a wave of bombings shook Beirut in protest of President Camille Chamoun's refusal to break relations with Britain and France. The army and police occupied key points in the capital, arrested 200, reportedly found dynamite in the Egyptian commercial attaché's car, and charged that the Egyptian assistant military attaché had been involved in a plot against President Chamoun. A new pro-American government was formed under Sami el Solh. His Foreign Minister was a familiar and friendly face, Charles ("the good") Malik...