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...keep the score down. Connecticut coach Fred Barakat ordered his players to hold the ball in the second half. However, the Yardlings repeatedly forced Husky turnovers, and finally Connecticut abandoned its cautious play and started to run with Harvard. The Crimson then resumed building a huge total at a rapid rate for the rest of the game...
...powerful socialist Baath Party charged that the government ''represents vested interests trying to stuff their own pockets." The government was determined to put Syria's plundered economy on an even keel and slow Nasser's precipitate nationalization program. But able, French-trained Economics Minister Awad Barakat said he would press forward with land redistribution, ''with certain modifications," and retain intact "social benefits instituted by the previous regime," including compulsory profit sharing in private industry...
...moment of truth for the Geneva conference came in a "secret session" held at the elegant Villa Barakat, once the property of the late Aga Khan and now the temporary headquarters of French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. Drinks in hand (fruit juice for Russia's Gromyko), the foreign ministers of the Big Four and their assistants sat in awkward silence last week on Couve's terrace, looking down through a lovely spring evening at the waters of Lake Geneva. With all the vast range of East-West conflicts as their province, the assembled diplomats could find...
This week, troubled Egypt got its fifth Premier in five months. Out went Ahmed Naguib Hilaly Pasha and in came Hussein Sirry Pasha, a Paris-educated civil engineer. When he failed to form a cabinet, King Farouk asked Bahi Addine Barakat Pasha...
Arrests. Abdur Rahman Fahmy Bey, Mahmud Nekrashy Effendi, Makrum Obeid Effendi and Barakat Pasha, all prominent members of Zaghlul's party organization and still Deputies of Parliament, were arrested in their homes by British soldiers for plotting against the British. The following day 35 more arrests were effected. A great cry went up protesting that the four Deputies enjoyed parliamentary immunity from arrest and that the British had acted illegally...