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...chief Arab rival) caught an Egyptian army officer masquerading as an Egyptian embassy butler and convicted him of conspiracy. In neighboring and impoverished Libya, where the U.S. has a big air base. Egyptian Ambassador Ahmed Hassan el Faki connives busily with his good friend Russian Ambassador Nikolai Generaloff to root Western influence out of the country. In the words of one correspondent, they are "closer than worms in a bait can." Cairo has also given asylum to Colonel Abdullah el Tel, onetime Arab Legion commander in Jerusalem, who fled Jordan to escape imprisonment for complicity in the assassination of King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Big Brother | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

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