Word: gamal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Year. For the dedicated Ruling Twelve of the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC), for Naguib, its elder counselor and front man, for 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, its spark and driving power, it had been a good year. King Farouk, the monarchy, the political parties and the corruption had gone. Land reform was coming, confused but coming. Crops were good, and cotton exports were up one-third over last year. But the green young army officers of the RCC had no easy solution for Egypt's basic problem: overpopulation. Egypt's people, by doubling their number...
...GAMAL ABDEL-NASSER...
Authorities blocked all ports and airfields in Egypt to stop Dancer Samia ("The Virgin of the Nile") Gamal from leaving the country before she ponies up Egyptian income taxes on the money she earned in the U.S. Reaction came swiftly from her real-estate-rich husband Sheppard ("Abdullah") King in Houston. "I knew they would nab her," he told reporters. "If she's not back by October, I'll fly over and lay siege to Egypt...
...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...
...Heikal if he wanted a lawyer to defend him, he replied: "I am in no need of a lawyer. I came here to accuse. I don't consider myself to be accused of anything." To Heikal's defense rallied Naguib's right-hand man, Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, who told the committee that Naguib's government does not want "newspapers [to] applaud us [because] secretly we would have bought this [applause]." Nevertheless, the committee ordered Hei kal to 1) apologize or 2) stand trial and face suspension as a working newsman...