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Last March a mutiny broke out. Two Sudanese brigadier generals marched on Khartoum with two battalions and kidnaped Abboud's No. 2 man, the Minister of the Interior. But Abboud, after hearing out the brigadiers' complaints, fired his Interior Minister and promoted the two officers to seats on Sudan's Supreme Military Council. Two months later the mutineers organized another inept coup, and though a court-martial sentenced them to death, Abboud commuted their sentences to life imprisonment...
...Colonel AH Hamid, decided that destiny awaited him, and drove with his band into the Omdurman infantry barracks crying: "Here is the great officer Ali Hamid." This time President Abboud's patience was at an end. Last week Ali Hamid and four of his accomplices were hanged at Khartoum prison-the first casualties, after one year and 15 days, of the Middle East's gentlest revolution...
Last week, nearly three months later, Che was in Khartoum, slowly beating his way home. He had been to Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, Yugoslavia, Pakistan, Ceylon, Iraq and the Sudan for average stays of three to five days, and he had worked as hard as a man could at his boondoggle. He dined with Nehru, got photographed with Nasser, talked with Sukarno, Tito, Pakistani President Mohammad Ayub Khan. His message everywhere was "positive neutralism," but it always came out as neutralism against...
...ages of six and seven, after which I suspended it and did not resume it till I was 24." This startling statement he leaves unexplained. No less tantalizing is his claim to inside knowledge of why British General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon and his besieged garrison were overwhelmed at Khartoum in 1885: "All the high endeavour . . . miscarried through the petty episode of Lord Charles Beresford's developing a boil on the bottom at the critical moment." At this critical moment in his anecdote, Jones drops the laconic footnote, "Private information," and rushes on in a mountain torrent of Welsh reminiscences...
...reforms, said that "the Sudanese nation is still at the rear of the caravan" of progress. But there wars pointed evidence that the two had plotted against the Abboud regime. Witnesses testified that Shennan told an army captain in, of all unlikely places, the public reading room of Khartoum's Sudanese Cultural Center that "nobody believes there has been a revolution in this country, not even we, the members of the Supreme Council." Others said that the plotters advocated a purge of the army, with its "corruption inherited from the British," and a return to semicivilian government...