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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat felt impelled to intervene. He telephoned Sudan's President, Major General Jaafar Numeiry, in Khartoum and offered a bit of advice: spare the life of Shafie Ahmed Sheikh, secretary-general of the Sudan's federation of trade unions, winner of the Lenin Peace Prize and a leader of the Arab world's strongest Communist Party (6,000 active members). Coolly, Numeiry said he would have been delighted to comply with the Egyptian request except for one thing -Sheikh had been hanged two hours before the telephone call...
With such goings on, it was small wonder that the demonstrators who poured into Beirut's streets to applaud General Jaafar Numeiry's return to power in the Sudan were so befuddled that they chanted slogans condemning a bizarre assortment of bedfellows: Israel, Jordan's Hussein, the U.S. and the Communists. "In the face of Israel we are all Arabs," Sadat told a meeting of Egypt's Arab Socialist Union last week, but he added: "Unfortunately, disunity still prevails amongst...
...Sudan in midsummer is an oven of a land where temperatures soar to 120° day after day and tempers tend to get even hotter. Since he took power 26 months ago, Major General Jaafar Numeiry, 41, leader of the ruling Revolutionary Command Council, has faced eight attempted coups, most of them during the summer months. Last week members of the army elite that governs this equatorial nation of 15 million staged the most confusing hot-weather spectacular since it won independence from Britain 15 years ago. In the space of a few days, rebellious officers toppled the government, imprisoned...
Like their neighbors in Egypt, the men who run the Sudan have found foreign Communists a good deal easier to get along with than the domestic variety. Two weeks ago, Major General Jaafar Numeiry, 41, the Sudan's leftist leader, vowed that he would "crush and destroy" the country's 6,000-member Communist Party. The local Communists, he said, were guilty of everything from sabotage to poking fun at the Sudanese armed forces...
Instant Power. Last December, when Nasser traveled to Khartoum and Tripoli to promote the three-way federation, he was met by frantic crowds screaming: "One people, one people, one people!" Until his death, Nasser met regularly with Sudanese Leader Jaafar Numeiry and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. At last week's meeting, Numeiry, Gaddafi and Nasser's successor, Anwar Sadat, produced a communiqué pledging to seek eventual political federation. To this end, they set up a "Tripartite Political Command...