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...orders to anyone I want. I'm prisoner of nobody. As for the colonels in our army, they do what they're told." But if beaver-busy Serraj does not run the country, his political seniors cannot run it without him, either. Said big, bald Prime Minister Sabri el Assali: "We are in complete agreement-President, government, people, army...
Telling Nasser. As the side-room politicking began, Nasser's chief political aide, Wing Commander Ali Sabri, flew in from Cairo. He announced that shipowning nations still had rights in Suez−"the same rights as a customer in a shop." Then he went into a long session with India's Krishna Menon, whose eagerness to defend Nasser's anti-Western stand was slightly tempered by awareness that the canal is also his country's road to market. At week's end one Asian delegate asserted that, of the half-dozen Asian representatives...
Closest to Nasser is the man to whom he first confided his conspiratorial ambitions in 1942: Army Chief Abdel Hakim Amer, 36. He still plays chess with Nasser ("A fox," says Amer), and is in on all the big moves. Ali Sabri, 36, whom Nasser sent to London to keep watch on the Suez conference, is his political fixer, and probably sees him most frequently. Sabri is also Nasser's most frequent tennis opponent (Sabri usually wins−;Nasser has gained weight of late). These and other close advisers are smart, dedicated−and obedient...
...things until the elections-or until someone else decides to move in for himself-the mixture of soldiers, nationalists, socialists and others who joined in ousting Shishekly picked as new Premier stout, bespectacled Sabri el Assali, a right-wing Damascus lawyer. Around him was assembled a Cabinet notable mostly for its lack of political notables. One exception: Defense Minister Marouf Dawalibi, who was Premier when Shishekly assumed power two years...
...Achmadjahm has not answered. Sinkiang's Governor General Masud Sabri has posted red-lettered public warnings in Tihua streets: "None may plot murder against officials, carry illegal weapons, secretly trail or torture others, incite mobs to violence." Trigger-ready militiamen patrol oasis towns. Upon Peitashan's snowy heights the Outer Mongolians are reported to be receiving reinforcements and probing the Chinese lines...