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...place on Ashland Chemical Co., Bendix Field Engineering Corp., Dresser Industries Inc. and International School Services. the same day, were clearly intended as a signal of bipartisan U.S. concern about the boycott. In Cairo, where the Arab boycott committee is currently holding its semiannual review of the blacklist, Mohammed Mahgoub, commissioner general of the boycott office, defended the list as "a legitimate means of legitimate self-defense." At the boycott committee's opening session last week, Mahgoub insisted that companies are listed only if they "play a role in helping Israel's economic, industrial or military efforts...
Shortly afterward, the head of Sudan's Communist Party was also found guilty of treason. Abdel Khalek Mahgoub denied that he had advance knowledge of the plot. Again Numeiry stepped in to play prosecutor. He held up a sheet of paper listing Cabinet choices in a post-Numeiry government and asked Mahgoub if the handwriting were his. The Communist leader admitted that it was. The military court quickly found Mahgoub guilty of treason and hanged...
...meetings). Though he is a leftist, Numeiry is an intense foe of the local Communists-partly because they oppose his plan to link the Sudan in a federation with Libya, Egypt and Syria, and partly because he is convinced that they want to undermine him. Communist Leader Abdel Khalek Mahgoub wisely kept out of sight last week as sympathetic army officers mounted their coup. But there were reports that he masterminded the coup from the Bulgarian embassy in Khartoum...
Currently, the biggest headache for the Arab League's boycott director, Egyptian Lawyer Mohammed Mahmoud Mahgoub, is a form of trade conducted close to home. Since the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel has followed an "open bridges" policy that allows the Arabs living on the Israeli-occupied West Bank of Jordan to continue trade and traffic with the East Bank, and thus with the Arab world. The trade, in citrus fruits, vegetables and manufactured goods, has now reached $20 million annually, and competitors like Lebanon are demanding that the Arabs close the bridges. The Arab League will take...
...agreement of sorts did come out of Khartoum. In a two-hour conference at the home of Sudanese Premier Mohammed Mahgoub, Nasser and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal promised to stop their five-year confrontation in Yemen. They signed a treaty under which Nasser will pull out the 20,000 troops that now prop up Yemen's Leftist Premier Abdullah Sallal, Feisal will stop sending arms to Sallal's tough Royalist enemies, and three neutral Arab states will send in observers to make sure that no one cheats. If carried out as promised, that pact would almost...