Word: khartoum
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...have a grim sameness. Time after time the screen was filled with shots of rampaging mobs with hate in their eyes, or of steel-helmeted troops fanning out through a tense capital in the fateful hours before dawn. For 1958 was another year when men from Caracas to Khartoum lost patience with the established order, a year when nations abruptly smashed familiar institutions and sent their onetime idols off to political oblivion ? or violent death...
...week of fast-breaking Foreign News stories, most of the rest of the news did not have to be laboriously dug out of statistics or pried out of travelers. On the hint of trouble in the Sudan, Curtis Prendergast flew into Khartoum from Johannesburg, arriving the day the generals took over. In Tokyo, Alexander Campbell filed a detailed story on the crown prince's betrothal that no Japanese newspaper had yet dared print. In Berlin, a TIME correspondent learned about Mayor Willy Brandt's late-hour habits while talking far into the night with the man whose strong...
That popular Eastern melodrama. Here Come the Generals, which has played so successfully during recent weeks in Pakistan, Burma, Thailand and Iraq, opened to thunderous applause last week in Khartoum, capital of the Sudan...
There were scarcely any changes in the script: the curtain rose on a sleeping city, a soft wind stirred the camel-foot trees along the Nile. At midnight armored cars, Bren gun carriers, lorries packed with troops rolled out from the suburban barracks and into Khartoum and its sister cities of Omdurman and Khartoum North. One unit occupied the radio station; another took over the telephone exchange. Troops in pompon hats and khaki shorts were dropped off in front of the houses of prominent politicians. At 5 a.m. the officeholders were rudely awakened, handed letters firing them from their jobs...
...very day the mutinous Iraqi army officers took over Baghdad and proclaimed their comradeship with Nasser, an Egyptian officer arrived in Khartoum and announced himself new counselor to the Egyptian embassy. To the Sudanese government the name of Ali Khashaba was familiar. Iraq and Lebanon had already expelled him for subversion. Last spring Saudi Arabia, kicking him out, accused him of masterminding a plot to murder King Saud. Within three days of his arrival in Khartoum, the Sudanese government charged Ali Khashaba with stirring up subversion, gave him exactly 24 hours to get out of the country...