Word: jaafar
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...debris. Bodies have rotted. Hundreds of thousands of people are homeless. Our dead are scattered in the streets. Hunger and thirst are killing our remaining children, women and old men." Only reluctantly did the guerrillas agree at week's end to a cease-fire arranged by Sudanese Strongman Jaafar Numeiry and pressed by Arab leaders meeting in Cairo (see following story). The truce had hardly taken effect before Numeiry and other Arab leaders were accusing Hussein of breaking...
Sitting Idle. Nasser's most trustworthy allies at the summit were Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, Lebanon's new President, Suleiman Franjieh, and Sudan's strongman, Major General Jaafar Numeiry, who served as mediator between the Cairo conferees and the antagonists in Jordan. It was the goal of Nasser to stop the fighting before either side achieved victory. Nasser still needs as much of a Palestinian "constituency," as one Egyptian official put it, as he can salvage; but he also would like to keep Hussein, his primary link to the West...
...meaning of that statement was entirely clear to Sudanese Strongman Major General Jaafar Nemery, who, celebrating the first anniversary of the coup that brought him to power in Khartoum, had asked Nasser to join the festivities. Nemery has admitted 1,000 Soviet military advisers and economic technicians to Sudan. Several are training his pilots to fly MIG-21s. East Germany, meanwhile, provides advisers for Nemery's increasingly elaborate internal-security program...
...martyrs." If one of the Israelis' objectives was to weaken Nasser, the raid seemed to be having the opposite effect -at least for the time being. "Nasser! Nasser!" screamed the crowds as Egypt's President drove to prayers at Al Azhar mosque with visiting Sudanese Premier Jaafar Nemery and Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Two newspapers in the Egyptian capital, noting that U.S. Phantom jets had been used to carry out the Abu Zabal raid, called it "an American-Israeli crime in which Nixon is an accomplice...
...drew crowds of 40,000 in Tripoli, 65,000 in Benghazi. He further delighted Libyans by appearing as a witness at the wedding of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, 27, the nation's revolutionary leader, to Fathia Khaled, daughter of an army officer. In Khartoum, he joined Major General Jaafar Numeiry, Sudan's boss since an army coup last year, in celebrating the country's 14th anniversary of independence. Three miniskirted girls broke through the security ring surrounding Nasser and one of them managed to seize him and buss him before she was hustled away...