Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then because of General Naguib's coup in Egypt, Richardson flew to Cairo, where he spent most of the next three weeks. Meanwhile, part-time correspondents in a number of capitals kept TIME informed of developments in their countries. From Teheran, Reza Kavoussi had sent in a running report of the street violence protesting the fall of Mossadegh. In Cairo. Mohamed Wagdi covered the opening hours of the Egyptian coup alone, then helped Richardson cover subsequent events...
...Free Officers decided on a coup d'état. They drew up elaborate plans and asked Naguib, the most popular and trusted senior officer, to take command. After much soul-searching, he agreed...
...Coup. Zero hour was at 1:30 a.m. on July 23. Special duty squads seized strong points at the approaches to Cairo; jeeploads of young officers roared into town, rapped at doors and windows, and rounded up eleven generals and a battalion of sleepy colonels, including Naguib's brother Aly, commander of the Cairo garrison. "Shall I personally inform General Aly's wife?" a young officer asked Naguib. "Do the same as you did with the others." Naguib ordered, and his brother was packed off to jail...
...such times, Naguib appears less like the strong man and more like the presiding officer of a strong-minded group. In a sense, that is what he is. On taking over leadership of the Free Officers coup against Farouk (TIME, Aug. 4), Naguib inherited a six-man operating group of majors and colonels, and added four of his own men. To this day, this committee makes all the big decisions jointly. Inside, there are sharply divergent viewpoints. So far, Naguib, who outranks the others in years, prestige, personality and brains, has managed to keep the hotbloods pulling together; on crucial...
Seventy-three-year-old Nahas Pasha (now to be known simply as Mustafa el Nahas). who bosses Egypt's biggest political party, the corrupt Wafd, broke off a Swiss vacation at the news of Naguib's coup. He boarded a plane for the first time in his life and hastened to Naguib's side, crying: "It is my duty to pay a visit to the savior of the country." They talked for an hour and when they emerged. Nahas, catching sight of waiting photographers, cagily hooked elbows with Naguib and flashed his winning smile. But two days...