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Regular Tours. The young King who took over as ruler of Egypt in 1936 seemed hardly destined for such a sordid end. At the death of his father, King Fuad, he had been recalled from Britain's Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. Farouk was then a tall, handsome youth of 16 who took pride in his position as Egypt's Chief Boy Scout. After a two-year regency, Farouk got full power and pledged he would be "the first servant of my country...
...Cairo jewelry store. His spies reported that her name was Narriman Sadek and that she was about to be married to Egyptian Diplomat Zaki Hashem. Farouk sent Hashem off to a post abroad and married Narriman himself. A year later, the new Queen presented Farouk with a son, Prince Fuad. But this marriage also ended in divorce, and Farouk resumed collecting women in much the same fashion that he collected coins, stamps, clocks, jewelry and pornography...
...Soviet Union rattled its rockets, and 14,000 U.S. marines landed to ward off a threatened Communist or Nasserite takeover. Yet last week, when the Lebanese tried another election, the event was as quiet and disciplined as a New England town meeting. After a vote in parliament, President Fuad Chehab peacefully surrendered his office to President-elect Charles Helou. Since Helou means "sweet" in Arabic, newspapers headlined that his inauguration would begin "a sweet era" for Lebanon...
...Jour, which has since folded. Helou became Lebanon's representative at the Vatican, later served in parliament and the Cabinet, most recently as Minister of Education. During the 1958 civil war, he joined a "third force" that was neutral in the conflict, and therefore, like retiring President Fuad Chehab, he is acceptable to both sides...
Founded in 1960, OPEC now has eight members-Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela-and controls 90% of the world's oil exports. "Oil is the only resource that God gave us," says OPEC's secretary-general, Fuad Rouhani, 56. "We are not so much underdeveloped nations as we are underpaid nations." Having rebuffed the oil industry's big eight (five of which are U.S. companies), OPEC plans a meeting in the Saudi Arabia capital of Riyadh later this month to decide what is next...