Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Instructor at the military academy, Nasser married the daughter of a Cairo rug merchant. Nasser saw no World War II action. The British had reoccupied Egypt, ringed Farouk's palace with tanks, made the King accept their nominee for wartime Premier...
...Dismissing Naguib as not revolutionary enough, Nasser became Premier himself. He negotiated British withdrawal from their Suez base, attended the Bandung Conference, and then, after rejecting a limited U.S. offer, ordered arms from the Soviet bloc...
...Egyptian consul general in Jerusalem was deep in last year's plot to overthrow Jordan's King Hussein. Egyptian agents worked mightily, and unsuccessfully, to throw down Abdalla Khalil, doughty pro-Western Premier of the newly independent Sudan. Two years ago an Egyptian embassy "messenger" was convicted of trying to assassinate Iraqi leaders. Last year an Egyptian colonel named Ali Khashaba organized and financed a plot to kill Saudi Arabia's King Saud. Last week the U.S. Government published a sheaf of intelligence reports of Nasser's doings in Lebanon, where Moslem rebels have been getting...
They proclaimed a three-man Council of State and a 13-man Cabinet (nine of them civilians), with the whole show headed by El-Kassim, a tough and idealistic soldier who became Premier as well as Minister of Defense and the Interior. The man who became President of the Council of State, General Najeeb el-Rubaiya, was out of the country at the time; he was Iraq's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. By 6 a.m. the radio was trumpeting: "Citizens of Baghdad, the Monarchy is dead! The Republic is here!" Only one thing remained to be done: find Iraq...
Victims of Illusion. By hitting Japan economically, where it is most sensitive (Japan's trade deficit was $1.4 billion last year), the Chinese Reds hope to stir up opposition to Premier Kishi and support for Peking-Tokyo trade. The Reds glibly dangle the bait of "600 million customers" before the eyes of Tokyo businessmen, although experience has shown that neither Communist China nor Japan has any great desire to buy the kind of consumer goods the other has to sell. Japanese businessmen also soon discover that they can deal only with state-owned Communist trading corporations rather than...