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...500n after she "bought" 80 acres from her good companion, Fuad Serag el Din (TIME, Feb. 8), he became a pasha and Agriculture Minister in her husband's Cabinet...
Knowledgeable French sources say that France-Soir's stories, though sometimes embellished, are essentially true. Some relatives of the dead victims, demanding blood money, have launched complaints in Casablanca, and an investigation has been started. Ben Youssef's implacable Berber enemy, the old Pasha of Marrakech, is supposed to have had a hand in spreading the stories. The French Foreign Office professes to be horrified. Digging up old tales about him at this time, said a Quai d'Orsay spokesman properly, is "not fair play...
...taken a calculated gamble: if Syria could ride out the crisis without returning to police-state methods, democracy would be on its way. While Shishekly lingered and hoped, the opposition prepared. In June the ousted politicos - extreme right-wing ers, moderates, left Socialists, and the old Druze chieftain, Sultan Pasha el Atrash - met secretly, organized the Popular Bloc, and agreed to bury their hatchet -in Shishekly's back. Still Shishekly did nothing. Three weeks ago, emboldened, the Popular Bloc plotted the final act, the overthrow of Shishekly. The climax was set for the night of Wednesday...
Back to GHQ. Last week, when students at Horns began rioting on schedule, and old Sultan Pasha el Atrash called in his subchieftains to plot trouble, Shishekly abandoned his gamble. He left the presidential palace, went to his desk at army GHQ and decreed martial...
...horse, he was uncomfortably riding to the hounds across the rolling greens of Ireland as the guest of Hollywood Director John Huston. In the last five years, he has gone to even greater lengths in the interest of his column. He has bobsledded at St. Moritz, dined at the pasha's palace at Marrakech, French Morocco, and at the Marquis de Cuevas' fancy-dress ball at Biarritz (TIME, Sept. 14), he turned up barelegged, bewigged and dressed as an American Indian with a sign on his back: "Us Go Home." "It's simply amazing," says Buchwald...