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...Morgue. The growing disorder of Farouk's personal life and the corruption and mismanagement of his government led to the 1952 coup d'état by a group of army officers headed by Major General Mohammed Naguib, who was later displaced by Gamal Abdel Nasser. Deposed, Farouk sailed off on his royal yacht and was said to have arrived at Naples in tears...
...years following, Farouk became a citizen of Monaco but spent most of his time in Rome. He grew ever more gross and more persistent in the pursuit of women. And it was mostly women, last week, who crowded around his bier at Rome's municipal morgue. His first wife, Farida, and her three daughters came from Switzerland. Six other women, who said they were Egyptian refugees, also signed the funeral register. Young Prince Fuad left a sickbed to attend the funeral and was the major beneficiary of Farouk's $3 million estate...
There were many ironies to his death. As ex-King of Egypt, he died in exile in Rome, just as ex-King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, died in exile in Alexandria. Also ironic was the fact that in the week of Farouk's death, the man who had helped overthrow him, Gamal Abdel Nasser, was almost unanimously re-elected President of Egypt, obtaining an incredible 99.999% of the 6,950,000 votes cast. If the results were to be believed, only 65 hardy souls voted against Nasser, while 489 ballots were defaced and therefore held invalid...
...Factory Hysteria." As the election returns might suggest, Nasser has been every bit as autocratic as Farouk ever was. Only one name was on last week's ballots, and only one name appeared in the screaming headlines of the government-controlled press, all of them demanding Nasser's "re-election." To the Egyptian masses, who tend to be docile people, these political shortcomings are less important than the economic results that Nasser has achieved. Industrial production has climbed from $753.6 million in 1952 to an estimated $2.1 billion this year. Exports have more than quadrupled, and the output...
...point out. "We can always go back to bread and beans," says one proudly. For all the shortages, most Egyptians are far better off than they were a decade ago. The lack of such things as radio batteries is in a sense proof of this. After all, under Farouk, hardly any Egyptians even had radios...