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...palace physicians in triumph. King Farouk, who had sat sleepless all night in the next room, entered his wife's bedchamber with tears in his eyes, took his blond newborn son in his arms and kissed him. "Thanks, Pasha," the King told Obstetrician Ibrahim Magdi Bey, his words automatically bestowing a title on the lucky doctor. Then, reverently, he kissed his 18-year-old Queen Narriman on the brow and left the room...
...week's end, Shishekly, still worried, decided to make a clean sweep of all remaining potential resistance to his power. The single most respected name in Syrian politics is 85-year-old Hashem Bey Attassi, former Syrian nationalist leader who was unanimously elected president by Parliament in Sept. 1950. This week, murmuring appropriate thanks to Attassi for his integrity, Shishekly issued "Communique No. 2," tossing Attassi out of the presidency, and dissolving parliament. Then he reached into his vest pocket for a Colonel Fawzi Silo, whom he installed as chief of state, Premier and defense minister, pending "restoration...
...other companions. His choices were strange. One was a short, baldheaded Lebanese journalist named Kareem Tabet, who is now the King's press counselor and confidant, has been described as Egypt's Harry Vaughan. Another of the King's favorites is a little Italian named Pulley Bey, a former palace barber and electrician whom (so the story goes) Farouk used to follow around when he was a child, watching with fascination as he screwed in light bulbs. Now he is a combination court jester and general handy man, recruits poker partners and, occasionally, pretty dancing partners; Tabet...
SYRIA (pop. 3,227,000): another slice of Ottoman Turkey mandated to France after World War I; republic, completely independent since 1946. Head of state: President HASHIM BEY ATASSI, 85. Real boss: Colonel ADIB SHISHAKLI who seized power in a coup late in 1949. Army: 25,000, one armored brigade, French equipment, weak staff. Militant member of the Arab League...
Among the last of King Abdullah's official visitors last week was a stocky, cigar-smoking man with a tarboosh tilted jauntily over a blunt, puckish face. He was Riad Bey el Solh, 57, one of the Middle East's shrewdest politicians and Lebanon's first premier when the little country became independent...