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With suitable fanfare, President Gamal Abdel Nasser set about creating a little more democracy than has existed in Egypt since he seized power in July 1952. For 22 days a three-man council headed by General Abdel Hakim Amer, Egypt's top military man, had been weeding out undesirables among the 2,508 candidates who filed for the 350-man Parliament in next week's elections. Last week, after Nasser himself had given the list a final pruning, the council announced the 1,322 survivors who would be allowed to submit themselves to the voters...
...West as the cause of all their troubles, for having thrust the State of Israel into their midst. Shortly before Israel invaded Sinai, Jordan united its armed forces with Syria's and Egypt's, thereby ringing Israel, under the supreme command of an Egyptian. Major General Abdel Hakim Amer. Yet as an Arab wag put it: "How can Jordan unite with Egypt? Tunnels?" Federation with Syria seemed a more practical first step...
Within 48 hours after Jordan's election of an anti-West, pro-Nasser Parliament, Nasser's No. soldier, Major General Abdel Hakim Amer, flew into Jordan's capital city of Amman. He quickly negotiated a pact to align Jordan's army, alongside those of Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia, under Amer's command in case of war with Israel. The reaction of Israel was swift. Premier David Ben-Gurion proclaimed a partial mobilization of Israel's armed forces, as "a precautionary measure and to safeguard the security of Israel's borders and border...
Closest to Nasser is the man to whom he first confided his conspiratorial ambitions in 1942: Army Chief Abdel Hakim Amer, 36. He still plays chess with Nasser ("A fox," says Amer), and is in on all the big moves. Ali Sabri, 36, whom Nasser sent to London to keep watch on the Suez conference, is his political fixer, and probably sees him most frequently. Sabri is also Nasser's most frequent tennis opponent (Sabri usually wins−;Nasser has gained weight of late). These and other close advisers are smart, dedicated−and obedient...
...eager to have a war over Jordan water. Besides. Cairo and other Arab capitals, so lately cocky over Soviet help, have been cooled off considerably by B. and K.'s pledge to the British to work for Middle East peace. "Egypt does not want war," said Major General Hakim Amer in Cairo last week. "We appreciate the consequences...