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...their first months in office, Nabulsi's leftists brought the Anglo-Jordanian treaty to an end. replaced the British subsidy by a pledge of financial help from Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (which only oil-rich Saudi Arabia has so far honored), and began a systematic purge of pro-Western and royalist elements in the civil service. The overthrow of Hussein himself seemed only a matter of time...
Cordiality in Kabul. Setting out in mid-March with six Washington-appointed aides and two secretaries, Richards started off with pro-Western countries: Lebanon, Libya, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan. With apparent success he earnestly tried to clear away any suspicions that the Eisenhower Doctrine harbored hidden motives or involved any infringement of sovereignty. From Pakistan Richards flew to Afghanistan, which had declared itself neutral in the cold war and welcomed aid and technicians from neighboring Russia. At the end of three days in the chilly capital city of Kabul, Richards and Prime Minister Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan issued a cordial joint...
...have always resented Nasser's implied threat to reach over their heads to the street mobs in their own countries, have become increasingly aware that Nasser has exploited Arab nationalism primarily for Egypt. The new rulers of Tunisia, Morocco and Libya, the young King of Jordan, the new pro-Western government of Lebanon, though all making noises of Arab unity, resent Nasser's dominance...
...machines sprang up like mushrooms after a rain, and in no time at all 23 parties had named 965 candidates. Most formidable of the opposition groups was the Prachathipat (Democratic) Party headed by thin, reedy-voiced ex-Premier Nai Khuang Aphaiwong, who upheld the Pibul government's staunchly pro-Western foreign policy, but damned its corruption and authoritarianism. "We live under a government of gangsters," shrilled Nai Khuang, to the delight of thousands of assembled Bangkokians...
...Serraj (TIME, Jan. 14) has led to power in Syria. Shortly after Jedid's arrival in Lebanon a Syrian court sentenced him to death in absentia for his alleged complicity in the assassination of a Serraj colleague. Early this month, during Serraj's show trial of 47 pro-Western Syrians charged with participation in an "Iraqi plot," the prosecutor again called for the death sentence on Jedid. To the angry Lebanese, whose relations with Syria were already tense, it was insultingly clear that the Syrian government had carried out the execution of Ghassan Jedid in the capital...