Word: nasr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...losses at five soldiers killed, 26 wounded, two vehicles destroyed, and a Piper Cub downed by a Soviet-made SA-2 missile. The Egyptians admitted to four soldiers killed, 39 wounded and 72 civilian casualties, as well as extensive damage to 14 oil tanks at the Suez and Nasr refineries...
...fedayeen, who stand in the way of any hope of a settlement with Israel. Two weeks ago, residents of Jordan's capital of Amman awakened to the sound of gunfire. Loyal Bedouin soldiers clapped a tight curfew on the city and rounded up members of Kataeb al Nasr ("phalanx of victory"), a shadowy group on the fringe of the fedayeen movement. Tensions ran high between the Bedouins and the dispossessed Palestinians who now make up a restless majority of Jordan's population. When Bedouins also attacked a training camp of Al Fatah, the largest fedayeen group, killing nine...
...list of auto-producing countries is lengthening, even if many of them make cars only under license with the major manufacturers in other nations. Such arrangements vary widely, from mere final assembly of a vehicle to the production of most parts locally. Manufacturers' labels are often misleading. The Nasr (Victory) sedans of the U.A.R., for example, are in fact Fiats assembled in Cairo. Some countries-for one, Red China, which makes passenger cars named Red Flag and Phoenix-refuse to publish production figures, and outsiders can only estimate the output. Following are the totals of world auto production...
...Radio Cairo announced that he had poisoned himself, a report received with great skepticism. The twelve in court last week were accused of being Amer's main conspirators. Among them: Shams Badran, Minister of War during the conflict with Israel; Abbas Radwan, former Minister of the Interior; Salah Nasr, former chief of Nasser's intelligence service; and Galal Haridi, who had commanded Nasser's elite so-called "storm troops...
...driving off with him. The final plan, as described by the prosecutor, called for Amer and his men to seize command of the armed forces, arrest a number of top officials, including all cabinet members, and take control of the government. For the necessary payoffs, the government claims that Nasr gave $140,000 to Radwan...