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...conspiracies at home-he crushed two "imperialist" plots in his own regime before leaving-Sallal got tremendous ovations from street crowds in Damascus and Baghdad. In lordly style, he urged the Baathist leaders of Syria and Iraq to disperse the "summer cloud" of their differences with Egypt's Nasser, and grandly offered the virtually nonexistent Yemen republican army as an ally in repulsing "Zionist and imperialist aggressors...
...truce is Israel's projected plan to start diverting Jordanian waters from the Sea of Galilee next year. Arabs have long threatened to fight the minute Israel opens the taps. On the other hand, Israel has threatened to march into Jordan if King Hussein succumbs to a Nasser takeover. Asked how long the U.N. might have to stay, a veteran U.N. observer shrugged and said: "Fifteen more years...
...Rada Adzhubei, 34, blonde, plump daughter of Nikita Khrushchev and wife of Izvestia's editor, turned up in Cairo as guest of Hoda, 16-year-old daughter of Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Rada told newsmen...
...Baghdad, the ruling Baath (Renaissance) Party announced the unmasking of a "black plot to plunge Iraq into a sea of blood," proceeded to round up leading Nasser sympathizers. Among those arrested were three generals, five colonels, two ex-Cabinet ministers, and the organizer of the pro-Nasser Arab Socialist Union Party, Abdel Razzak Shabib. By week's end, 180 Iraqi Nasserites were behind bars and facing trial...
...Damascus, the Syrian Baath Party, which bounced the Nasserites out of the government three weeks earlier, pushed ahead with its own mopping-up operations. Syria's Baathists fired three pro-Nasser ambassadors and several other top officials, and dishonorably discharged 40 army men suspected of pro-Egyptian leanings...