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Married. Mona Nasser, 18, younger daughter of United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser, a junior at Cairo's American University; and Ashraf Marwan, 23, Egyptian army lieutenant; in Cairo...
...Arabia, a barren 75-sq.-mi. crown colony that owes the relative prosperity of its 250,000 citizens largely to the fact that it is the second largest of Britain's dwindling overseas bases. That is at least one too many for Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who for two years has backed a resistance movement to heave the British...
...Nasser's efforts have been not without success. Last week, because of the "rapid deterioration of the security situation in Aden," Whitehall suspended the colony's two-year-old constitution, fired Chief Minister Abdul Qawee Mackawee, 46, and his 23-man Legislative Council, and turned control back to Her Majesty's High Commissioner Sir Richard Turnbull...
...lost all her sense of proportion," flew to Cairo for consultations with a certain party. This week he flies on to New York to plead his case for independence at the U.N. Back home, Aden's powerful (22,000-member) Trades Union Congress, led by one of Nasser's fondest admirers, called for a general strike "by every laborer, merchant, student and farmer-a day for remembering our martyrs and hailing the exiled"-and at week's end police were forced to quell striking rioters with tear gas. In London the idea of restoring colonial control...
...first truly through-train railroad system. World War I flattened the company, and it was just recovering when the Bolsheviks grabbed 600 of its cars in Russia. It prospered in the '20s and '30s, then in World War II lost 25% of its rolling stock. Later, Nasser confiscated the company's branch in Egypt. Says Andre Widhoff, 62, Wagons-Lits director-general: "Every morning when I wake up, I look at the newspaper and wonder: What has happened...