Word: khalil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issues were many and complex, but to the outside world, one towered over all: whether staunchly pro-Western Prime Minister Abdullah Khalil, head of the Umma (Nation) Party, would remain in power or be replaced by pro-Egyptian ex-Premier Ismail el Azhari, head of the National Unionist Party...
...accompaniment of a constant stream of anti-Western vituperation from Cairo, as well as the jingle of Egyptian money, El Azhari put on a vigorous, glad-handing campaign. He played upon the anti-religious sentiment of the younger generation by hammering away disdainfully at Premier Khalil's personal devotion to the Moslem cult of aging Abdel Rahman el Mahdi. He lashed out at the Baghdad Pact, accused the Premier of being pro-American, pro-British, and pro-imperialist. While carefully ignoring Nasser's blatant maneuvers to take over the Sudan and his newly asserted claim on more than...
Split Claims. A month ago Nasser fired off a note to the Sudanese government of Premier Abdalla Khalil demanding that the Sudan immediately hand over to Egypt 1) a 6,700-sq. mi. triangle of desert and scrub hills around Halaib on the Red Sea, 2) a 90-sq. mi. finger of land in the Nile River valley near the interior town of Wadi Haifa. Actually, Nasser had a legal case for his claim. After Lord Kitchener's forces (including a young subaltern lancer named Winston Churchill) defeated the Sudan's Dervishes at Omdurman in 1898, Egypt...
Hard-boiled Premier Khalil, who has fended off both Egyptian and Russian attempts to penetrate his new nation, tried in vain to telephone Nasser, dispatched his Foreign Minister to Cairo, and finally, after a Cabinet meeting lasting until 3 a.m., cabled an urgent complaint to the United Nations Security Council accusing Egypt of plotting "aggression" and of organizing a "huge infiltration of Egyptian troops" (disguised, according to Sudanese sources, as camel traders and manganese miners). Said the complaint: "Since the Sudan is determined to defend its territory, the situation would result in a breach of the peace and, if uncontrolled...
...promising new nations born since World War II, Khalil's Sudan seems to have a better chance than most of making its own way on its own terms...