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...what the attempted coups had failed to do and killed President Abdul Salam Aref (TIME, April 22), Egypt's President Nasser wanted to be sure that Iraq's new ruler would be as friendly to Egyptian aims as Aref. Off to Baghdad went Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, Egypt's No. 2 man, ostensibly to attend Aref's funeral but essentially to see that Nasser got what he wanted. Last week, with a nudge from the Egyptians, Iraq's Cabinet and top generals picked an underdog as Aref's successor. The new President: Abdel...
...Bella still alive? Nasser's chief aide, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, flew from Cairo to ask Boumedienne if he could see his old pal and "be assured of his safety." "Believe me," replied Boumedienne, "we would grant this request if Ben Bella were not in a place far from Algiers. But we guarantee his safety." When Amer then suggested that Ben Bella be exiled to Egypt, promising that he would not be allowed to plot a comeback, Boumedienne refused...
...leading moderate opponent of the socialist regime of President Ahmed ben Bella, Abbas had been under house arrest for eight weeks. But last week his plainclothes guards were gone, and relatives said that the grand old man of Algerian nationalism and his 17-year-old adopted son Hakim had been taken away by police toward "an unknown destination and for an unknown period...
...Cairo last week, Egypt's No. 2 man, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, stormed at a Syrian delegation: "Is Nasserism a crime in Syria now? If it is, how can we face the future together? If there are in Damascus people who consider Nasserism a crime, then how do you expect me to cooperate with them?" What set off Amer's flood of rhetorical questions was the threat posed to Nasser's dream of Arab unity by the gyrations of Syria's Baath Party leaders, headed by tall, lugubrious Premier Salah Bitar. The Baath leadership wants...
...Near fabled Samarkand, in the Uzbek Soviet republic, Chairman Hakim Mamadiarov of the Karl Marx collective farm was denounced for living like an Oriental potentate. Despite the Soviet ban on polygamy, Moslem Hakim has three wives, as permitted by the Koran, and each wife has a well-appointed separate residence, garden, and private herd of cows. Hakim himself has a house assessed at $22,200, plus a Volga auto, two motorbikes, a radio-phonograph console, a tape recorder and several TV sets. Of two peasants who protested his running of the farm, one was badly beaten, the other vanished. Demanding...