Word: khalil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...someone had clearly been doing political homework. Most of the evidence pointed to ousted Premier Abdullah Khalil. Strongly anti-Nasser, Khalil had been having difficulties. Bedeviled by rising prices, by an economic boycott on the part of Egypt and a growing surplus...
Sudanese cotton, faced with dissidents in his own Cabinet, Khalil could see governmental control slipping to his pro-Nasser rival, Ismail el Azhari, who recently predicted for Khalil "the fate of Nuri as-Said," the murdered Premier of Iraq. The fate of Nuri is also what provoked Abboud to prepare his plot. He got set for his coup while Ismail was conferring in Cairo with Nasser. Khalil could depend on the army, since he personally conducted a purge in 1956. when every officer was "scrutinized for his political views." More important. Abboud's second-in-command. Major General Ahmed...
...Fuzzy-Wuzzies immortalized by Rudyard Kipling for breaking a British square, Abboud became an army lieutenant in 1921, served with the British in Eritrea and North Africa during World War II, emerged as a colonel commanding a camel corps, and was finally named chief of staff by Premier Khalil...
...President Nasser keeps a roving eye on is his big (967,500 sq. mi.) southern neighbor of Sudan. The Sudan, ruled jointly for 56 years by Britain and Egypt, got its independence only 2½ years ago. But the Sudan's wily and forthright Moslem Premier Abdullah Khalil has shown himself surprisingly capable of keeping his young nation free. Eight months ago he smashed a threatened coup by arresting three officers and firing eight others, has since insisted on keeping his army free of Cairo-tainted men. Though pro-Nasserites shrilly cry that "American aid is more dangerous than...
Following his policy of "nonalignment," Khalil quickly recognized the new revolutionary regime in Iraq, but his expulsion of the conspiring Egyptian counselor brought a typical Cairo accusation of "disregarding the friendly and brotherly relations linking the peoples of the two countries...