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Show-Place Farm. The idea of a poultry farm in Lebanon first came to Stevenson five years ago when he was an Esso Standard assistant regional manager. To learn Arabic he hired Khalil Ghattas, an agriculture student at the American University of Beirut, who spent the lesson time talking about farming. Stevenson was so impressed with the boy's knowledge that they became partners. Stevenson risked $600 to set up a small chicken business on the Bekaa Valley farm of Khalil's father. Ghattas turned the farm into such a show place that U.S. Point Four officials sent...
...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...
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...