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...Egypt's Princess Fawzia. King Farouk's sister, Who is now married to an Egypitian busniessman, and to Iran's Esfandiari, who lives in Europe and has never remarried...
...triumph for his embattled President. Nonetheless Nixon plans to make a ten-day visit to Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia, probably beginning late next week. Sadat, confident that such a trip was in the offing, had already ordered the refurbishing of palaces once owned by King Farouk in Cairo and Alexandria for the presidential visit...
...Gamal Abdel Nasser unleashed virulent anti-Americanism by falsely charging that U.S. planes had wiped out his air force, the U.S. helicopter carrier Iwo Jima placidly anchored off Port Said to begin the minesweeping of the Suez Canal. Meanwhile, the Egyptian government prepared two former palaces of King Farouk for a possible state visit by President Nixon as early as some time...
...army. At the time, Sadat was a hothead who schemed and dreamed about blowing up British installations; Nasser was the cooler one who dissuaded him from such wild plots. With others, the two soldiers formed the nucleus of what became the Free Officers' Committee, which eventually ousted King Farouk in 1952. For all his antimonarchical zeal, Sadat almost missed the coup. On the night that it was scheduled to take place, Sadat somehow failed to receive his tip-off message and spent the evening at the movies. By the time he found out what was happening, Farouk...
...Eastern Europe, a CIA team tries to obtain a sample of a Communist party chief's urine. Purpose: to determine his state of health. The CIA did this successfully with Egypt's late King Farouk but failed recently with Yugoslavia's President Tito...