Word: egypt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guilty as he might be, Tabakchali had nonetheless won the sympathy of the whole Arab world. Throughout his trial, Egypt's Kassem-hating press and radio had hailed him and his fellow defendants as martyrs. In a more practical effort to help, Nasser's intelligence network fortnight ago bloodily disposed of a double agent who had been scheduled to testify against Tabakchali (TIME, Sept. 21). And in Iraq itself, Tabakchali's dignified conduct during the trial had won him an outspoken following, inspired for the first time unabashed criticism of Kassem in Baghdad...
...members, the Monetary Fund long had negligible influence on the world's currencies ; the job of reconstruction needed before currency stabilization proved too big. But by 1956, the year Jacobsson took over, the Fund got its first big chance to show what it could do when Egypt seized the Suez Canal, then blocked oil, food and other vital supplies from Europe, and touched off a disastrous run on the British pound...
...nations that had done the most for the Algerian nationalists-Tunisia, by giving the F.L.N. rebels a base on its soil, and Iraq, by sending them some $10 million in cash-boycotted the whole conference. Tunisia stayed away because President Bourguiba insists that the League is still dominated by Egypt's Nasser, and Iraq refused to attend for the same reason. And even as the men in Casablanca talked unity, Radio Baghdad broadcast new testimony that Nasser had backed the army officers who plotted last March's Mosul rising (see below) against Iraq's Premier Kassem...
...Balcony, by David Stacton. An astringent tale, several notches above the usual historical novel, of Egypt's neurotic Pharaoh Ikhnaton and his attempts to replace the old gods with a new and self-centered religion...
Corrupt Priests. With care and cynicism, Author Stacton builds his theory. Egypt's priesthood, Ikhnaton's mother reflects at one point, was "a series of venal officials ... a branch of the police, and only slightly more corrupt." Yet she is well aware that "corruption is the price we have to pay for order." Her son might have realized it too, had he possessed only that measure of insanity normal to a bloodline transmitted for generations through the marriage of brother and sister. But when the priests of Amon, in the traditional coronation ceremony, pushed the new Pharaoh alone...