Word: naguib
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...well as being a far-from-old and far-from-home Kansan. Back in the days when the young Egyptian army officer overthrew King Farouk's corrupt regime, Bell was the first correspondent to discover and report that the real head of the junta was not Mohammed Naguib, but an unknown colonel named Nasser. Now, seeing Nasser for the first time in nine years. Bell methodically noted his grey temples and greying hair and a figure as trim as ever. Weight? Nasser laughed: "I don't think anyone has asked me that since the last time...
...revolution has never been particularly totalitarian, but there was a nasty period in late 1961, when Syria broke away from Egypt. Hundreds of people, including army officers, were arrested. Foreign diplomats were shadowed by secret police. But since then, the atmosphere of fear has largely vanished. General Mohammed Naguib. the 1952 revolution's first leader, who served for two years as a front for Nasser and was then deposed, still lives quietly in a Cairo villa near the Nile and is permitted to move fairly freely about the city. Old Nahas Pasha and other former Wafdist enemies...
After six years of house arrest in a Cairo suburb, Major General Mohammed Naguib, original "strongman" of Egypt's 1952 revolution against King Farouk, was once again at liberty. Naguib, who proved too good to be strong, was first slapped into confinement when he showed signs of developing mass popularity and thereby outgrowing his role as front man for a junta led by Egypt's current President, Gamal Abdel Nasser. Though Naguib was freed last July on the anniversary of his revolution, his new status passed unnoticed until last week, because he continues to enjoy life...
...King Feisal and seized power last July, General Karim Kassem threw his arms around his top lieutenant, Colonel Abdul Salem Mohammed Aref, and called him "my brother in revolt." Others, presumably including Aref himself, decided that the hot-eyed Aref might one day play Nasser to Kassem's Naguib. Last week a prosecutor at one of Baghdad's show trials revealed, almost in passing, that Aref has already been tried and convicted of treason...
There are signs of trouble in the top leadership. Grizzled General Kassem is no man to be taken for another Naguib. After the July revolution his right-hand man, Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Mohammed Aref, rushed to Damascus to share Nasser's balcony, returned promising quick Arab unity through union with Nasser's U.A.R., seemed to be challenging Kassem's leadership. Touring the country making rabble-rousing speeches, Aref promised to strip landlords of their vast holdings, foreigners of more of treir oil profits. But Iraq's big Kurdish minority fear they might be submerged...