Word: sadek
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...waxing moon silvered the green hillside fields and sand dunes that make up the Gaza strip - the 6-mile by 30-mile sliver of Palestine crowded with 200,000 Arab refugees which Egypt rules under the armistice. Captain Mahmoud Ahmed Sadek, commander of a 35-man garrison guarding the ancient city of Gaza, had put his chair under a tree beside the trenches along the road. At the outpost up the hill toward the Israeli border, guards heard voices calling out in Arabic...
After seven months of it, Narriman looked pale, tired-and tired of it all. Two weeks ago mother-in-law Mme. Assila Sadek flew in from Cairo and flew at the ex-King. Result: Narriman, impassive behind dark glasses, drove to Rome's Ciampino Airport in her red Mercedes-Benz, accompanied by her triumphant mother, also wearing dark glasses. After tearful partings with friends, Narriman the child bride flew off to Switzerland with her mother and her pet poodle, Jou-Jou, but not her son, King Fuad II, heir to the throne. In Geneva she announced that she would...
Gently, Colonel Nasser told the captain that he had been overworking, called a staff car for him and suggested a few days' rest. Last week Captain Sadek was confined to an obscure Nile village under police protection, and The Fourteen were now The Thirteen...
...Sadek paid a call on Chief Hassan el Hodeibi, head of the powerful right-wing Moslem Brotherhood. They fell to wrangling about Communism. Finally, Captain Sadek blurted out: "Oh, come now, sir. There is one thing you must realize. Our movement is Communist. We are all Communists...
...Sadek was ordered to appear before Naguib's No. 2 man, Lieut. Colonel Abdel Nasser; he was asked whether he had made the remarks. Hotheadedly, Sadek answered yes, and what's more, he wanted five anti-Communists ousted from The Fourteen; he also demanded that martial law be lifted and imprisoned Reds be released...