Word: khalil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egyptian consul general in Jerusalem was deep in last year's plot to overthrow Jordan's King Hussein. Egyptian agents worked mightily, and unsuccessfully, to throw down Abdalla Khalil, doughty pro-Western Premier of the newly independent Sudan. Two years ago an Egyptian embassy "messenger" was convicted of trying to assassinate Iraqi leaders. Last year an Egyptian colonel named Ali Khashaba organized and financed a plot to kill Saudi Arabia's King Saud. Last week the U.S. Government published a sheaf of intelligence reports of Nasser's doings in Lebanon, where Moslem rebels have been getting...
...Manila Chronicle, reflecting the opinion of other former colonies who are U.S. allies: "The Arabs desire to weld their countries together and limit both Western and Communist encroachments in the area." The Parliament of Arab Morocco, where the U.S. has air bases, "forcibly denounced" the intervention. But Premier Abdullah Khalil of the Sudan, who is under constant pressure as Nasser's southern neighbor, expressed his "overwhelming joy," described the landings as "the turning point towards stability." And in Turkey the relief at the U.S. action was so unrestrained that Turkey's Baghdad Pact partners, Iran and Pakistan...
...nonmilitary aid since 1952, huffed the government, is hardly worth mentioning. Lebanon demanded that Washington 1) give Lebanon $170 million over the next six years and 2) remove the condition that Lebanon pay 50% of all aid projects. "If the American government rejects these terms," snapped Public Works Minister Khalil Hibri, "this government will not hesitate to reject all American...
...Premier Khalil had one powerful argument: his record. An outstanding administrator, he has kept his budget balanced, poured his surpluses into a series of development projects that have made the Sudan Africa's land of promise. He has resisted all Soviet attempts to infiltrate, sternly rebuffed both the blandishments and the threats that flood in from Egypt...
...Khalil's rugged independence paid off. Last week, with most of the ballots counted, Khalil's Umma Party was winner of 75 seats to El Azhari's 45. But Khalil needs another twelve votes to muster a majority in the 173-man Parliament, and both sides were busy wooing adherents among the minor parties and independents. Said one cynical observer: "For the next few days, you won't be able to sleep around here for the clink of money...