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Last week Fuad Serag el Din sat before the bar of justice in a Cairo court, smoking cigarettes instead of cigars, his expensive suit bagging a little on his thinning frame. He was on trial for his life on nine charges of misusing his powerful position in the Wafd and in the government...
Three years ago, fat Fuad Serag el Din was one of Egypt's masters. He planted his bulk firmly behind a huge desk equipped with seven phones, four squawk-boxes, three fountain pens and a mound of specially rolled, bat-sized Havanas, and bossed the secret police as Interior Minister, the treasury as Finance Minister, and the nation's No.1 political party as secretary general of the Wafd...
...decision, a popular one among Egypt's 20 million, abolished the regency set up after Farouk's exile and made young (1½) Fuad, Farouk's son and heir to the throne, just another Egyptian. It left Egypt in the charge of four soldiers, who now have new official titles: Premier Naguib, the "public-relations man" of the military junta, his Vice Premier, Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, 35, the real strongman of the bloodless revolution, and two other Egyptian army officers loyal to Nasser, and therefore to Naguib...
...glasses, drove to Rome's Ciampino Airport in her red Mercedes-Benz, accompanied by her triumphant mother, also wearing dark glasses. After tearful partings with friends, Narriman the child bride flew off to Switzerland with her mother and her pet poodle, Jou-Jou, but not her son, King Fuad II, heir to the throne. In Geneva she announced that she would return to Cairo, where she could file for divorce. (Moslem wives may shed husbands by petitioning the Sharia, the Moslem personal court, for divorce on one of four grounds: infidelity, mistreatment, desertion or impotence.) Naguib had issued...
...living in the U.S., filed suit in Cairo to recover some $5,000,000 worth of jewels, property and palace treasures as their share of the impounded estate of unbeautiful exiled brother Farouk. The lawyers acting for them will challenge the will of their father, the late King Fuad, which left all movable treasures in the royal palaces to Farouk; and base their claim on Islamic law, which gives each female one-eighth of the fam ily estate. The government's case: the estate is now public property, not subject to inheritance rules...