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...shortly after midnight indicated that once again intrigue was brewing in the South Yemen capital. Ostensibly for reasons of health, Abdel Fattah Ismail, 40, had resigned as his country's President and secretary-general of the ruling Socialist Party. Replacing him in both positions was Prime Minister Ali Nasser Muhammad, 41. In fact, there had been a bloodless coup...
...Nasser Muhammad is also a Marxist but, unlike his predecessor, apparently has a gift for compromise. In his first speech as President, he praised the friendship treaty with Moscow and vowed: "Our party will continue to struggle for Lenin's principles." At the same time, Nasser Muhammad began patching up quarrels with his neighbors. Within a day of taking office, he sent a special envoy to Saudi Arabia, whose approval is essential for unification with North Yemen. That goal may be closer than ever. Replying to a friendly overture from Nasser Muhammad, North Yemen's strongman, Lieut. Colonel...
...French and British are alienated when President Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles denounce, and thus doom, their attack on Egypt after President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal...
With a fortune estimated at $100 million, Farouk Nasser, 50, can afford to live anywhere he wants in the world; in fact he has homes in London and San Francisco as well as a sumptuous permanent hotel suite in Beirut. One of the most successful of Palestinian businessmen, he heads the Modern Electronics Establishment, with headquarters in Saudi Arabia. Nasser, whose family founded Bir Zeit University, still dreams of returning to his birthplace. "I'll tell you why I want to go back to Palestine," he says. "I belong to this land. I was born there. I know...
...Hanna Nasser, president of Bir Zeit University, was expelled from the West Bank by Israeli military authorities for "unspecified charges"a fate suffered by some 1,500 West Bank Palestinians. Nasser, 44, was taken in handcuffs from his home in the middle of the night, driven to the Lebanese border in a military van and tossed out of the vehicle. A physicist by training, he conducts public relations for the university from Amman. Nasser worries about what effect the Israeli occupation will have on younger Palestinians. "The Israelis should realize they have created a hothouse for young radicals...