Word: radwan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debt: shortly after his arrest last fall, Radio Cairo announced that he had poisoned himself, a report received with great skepticism. The twelve in court last week were accused of being Amer's main conspirators. Among them: Shams Badran, Minister of War during the conflict with Israel; Abbas Radwan, former Minister of the Interior; Salah Nasr, former chief of Nasser's intelligence service; and Galal Haridi, who had commanded Nasser's elite so-called "storm troops...
...final plan, as described by the prosecutor, called for Amer and his men to seize command of the armed forces, arrest a number of top officials, including all cabinet members, and take control of the government. For the necessary payoffs, the government claims that Nasr gave $140,000 to Radwan...
Nasser got wind of the plot, however, and ordered Amer and his fellow officers arrested. When the army men prepared to fight rather than go peacefully, Radwan-up to then still unidentified as a conspirator-visited the villa and persuaded them to give up. Though last week's first twelve defendants pleaded not guilty, the trial's final verdict, which may not come for weeks, is practically a foregone conclusion. Two of the three judges are loyal Nasser generals; the third-appointed court chairman-is one of Nasser's vice presidents, Hussein el Shafei...