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...Rings. The nation's commerce and industry, its education and ethics, were all developed to meet the challenge of global power. Its history books and literature reverberate with the names of soldier-heroes and the battlefields on which they won and held an empire: Omdurman and Lucknow, Quebec, Khartoum, Mafeking. In every corner of their island, statues and street names still celebrate a glory that has passed. "You used to open the atlas," muses a Manchester businessman, "and half the world was red. Now Britain is just a little red speck off the coast of Europe...
Last month another mutineer, Lieut. Colonel AH Hamid, decided that destiny awaited him, and drove with his band into the Omdurman infantry barracks crying: "Here is the great officer Ali Hamid." This time President Abboud's patience was at an end. Last week Ali Hamid and four of his accomplices were hanged at Khartoum prison-the first casualties, after one year and 15 days, of the Middle East's gentlest revolution...
...scarcely any changes in the script: the curtain rose on a sleeping city, a soft wind stirred the camel-foot trees along the Nile. At midnight armored cars, Bren gun carriers, lorries packed with troops rolled out from the suburban barracks and into Khartoum and its sister cities of Omdurman and Khartoum North. One unit occupied the radio station; another took over the telephone exchange. Troops in pompon hats and khaki shorts were dropped off in front of the houses of prominent politicians. At 5 a.m. the officeholders were rudely awakened, handed letters firing them from their jobs...
...finger of land in the Nile River valley near the interior town of Wadi Haifa. Actually, Nasser had a legal case for his claim. After Lord Kitchener's forces (including a young subaltern lancer named Winston Churchill) defeated the Sudan's Dervishes at Omdurman in 1898, Egypt and Britain set up a joint rule over the Sudan, drew the political boundary between Egypt and the Sudan along the 22nd parallel. But in 1902, in order to avoid splitting tribes in the Wadi Haifa and Halaib regions, the Egyptians agreed to pass to the Sudan administrative control...
...camel traders and manganese miners). Said the complaint: "Since the Sudan is determined to defend its territory, the situation would result in a breach of the peace and, if uncontrolled, may develop into armed conflict." In Khartoum students protested, Nasser's picture disappeared from shop windows, Radio Omdurman blared martial music...