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...hating the colonial British. When the upper-class Military Academy was opened up in 1936 to all Egyptians-a decision that changed the future of the country-Sadat was one of 52 boys picked. So were Nasser and six other Egyptians who later banded together to overthrow King Farouk. During World War II, Sadat, still passionately anti-British, collaborated with the Germans. On one occasion he urged his fellow officers to blow up the British embassy; the cooler Nasser restrained...
...Sadat, reinstated in the army and now a lieutenant colonel, joined in the Nasser-led coup that ousted Farouk; Sadat was chosen to announce the dramatic news to the nation. Nasser himself took power from General Mohammed Naguib two years later...
...year history of the Arab League. Also, responding to the constant criticism of his initiatives by Moscow, Sadat summarily closed down a number of Soviet consulates and cultural offices. That reduced the Communist presence in Egypt to its lowest level since the days of King Farouk...
...private meetings with reporters and diplomats in New York, Farouk Kaddoumi, the de facto foreign minister of the Palestine Liberation Organization, has hinted strongly that his organization is prepared to recognize Israel's right to exist under certain conditions. But back in Beirut, Yasser Arafat's political adviser, Hani Hassan, still insists that "our response must be: no recognition of the state of Israel. Anyone who reconciles himself with the enemy and recognizes the enemy will be eliminated." This constant inconsistency has led U.S. diplomats to adopt what one jokingly calls the five-day rule: "Any P.L.O. statement...
MARRIED. Prince Ahmed-Fuad, 25, only son of Egypt's late King Farouk; and Student Dominique-France Picard, 29, who is writing her doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne on the psychology of women in The Thousand and One Nights; both for the first time; at Monaco's royal palace. The infant Fuad was King-for-a-day in Egypt after his father abdicated in 1952, but his parents fled for Europe that night with him, his three half sisters and an estimated $40 million aboard the royal yacht...