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They ended last week with the understanding that old Umma Party Chief Sayed Abdul Rahman would come himself to Cairo to resume the talks. All sides were still far from agreeing, but-as one Sudanese minister explained it-"Our viewpoints were as far apart as Cairo and Khartoum [1,100 miles]; the distance now is only that from Cairo to Aswan [460 miles]." Cairo and London agreed that the chances for a settlement were the best in months...
...Posthumous son of the great Mahdi (messiah) whose desert dervishes laid siege to the undermanned British garrison of Khartoum in 1884, hacked to death its famed commander, General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon. Thirteen years later Kitchener avenged Gordon's death by smashing the dervishes at Omdurman. The Mahdi was already dead, but Kitchener ordered his tomb razed, his bones thrown into the Nile...
...liner, which gobbles its fuel many times faster than a propeller plane, made five stops: Rome, Beirut, Khartoum, Entebbe and Livingstone. Actually, as BOAC officials proudly pointed out, they were not trying to set speed records, just trying to fly a schedule they will meet thrice weekly, beginning next month. The Comet hit a top average speed of 525 m.p.h. on the Rome-Beirut leg, dawdled 46 minutes overtime at Khartoum's airport, wasted another half-hour at Livingstone, then regained so quickly that on the last leg Pilot R. C. Alabaster said: "We made wide sweeps to kill...
...Khartoum was almost in the center of the path of the eclipse's totality. Seventy scientists from ten nations assembled there...
...High Altitude Observatory, which is associated with Harvard and the University of Colorado, had news from its scientific team that its equipment had functioned "as scheduled." The observations were taken in Khartoum, Sudan...