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SUDAN. Pop. 18 million. Chief export: cotton. Religion: predominantly Islam. The armed forces consist of 53,000 men. President Jaafar Numeiry, who is vigorously antiCommunist, has lately been developing close ties with the U.S., which is supplying military transport planes to Khartoum. Numeiry is backing the Ethiopian rebels plaguing the Addis Ababa regime...
...Khartoum, Friday and Saturday...
March 1, 1973: U.S. Ambassador to the Sudan Cleo A. Noel, and his deputy chief of mission George C. Moore, executed in Khartoum by Palestinian guerrillas, along with a Belgian diplomat...
...trip for himself and another son to the Sudan, where he hoped to meet with the rebels. He speeded up his plans when the guerrillas announced that they would kill both captives at the end of April unless they got $3 million in ransom. Campbell finally reached Khartoum late in the month accompanied by two British journalists, who had befriended Steve in captivity, while covering the rebels. The newsmen brought along a documentary film they had made on the Eritreans. Campbell's bargaining ploy was a promise of publicity for the rebels in the U.S. The journalists showed...
After the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War of 1967, however, and the Khartoum conference that voted continuing Arab support for Egypt and other confrontation countries, Faisal's role changed. As anti-Zionist as he was antiCommunist, the King lavishly subsidized Arab governments battling Israel. He grew ever more bitter against Israel in recent years, most often mak ing no distinction between religious Jews (whom he professed to respect) and political Zionists. Until recently, he made no exception to his ban on Jews entering Saudi Arabia and distributed free copies of that discredited anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the (Learned...