Word: salah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the dozen passionate young army officers who preside over Egypt's 19 millions, none could be more temperamental or more troublesome under stress than sleek, slight Major Salah Salem. One of the original handful who plotted the overthrow of fat, frolicsome King Farouk, Salem had the lithe grace and purring charm of a cat, and like a cat, he could spit venomously if his fur was stroked the wrong...
Learning the News. At seven the next morning Naguib woke, switched on the radio and heard the surprising news: at 4 a.m. the R.C.C. had accepted his resignation and had named Nasser to his place as Premier. Over the air, Chief Propagandist Salah Salem painted Mohammed Naguib as never before−an ambitious, hypocritical, devious publicity seeker. Added Salem: Naguib was not "under arrest," but had merely been "asked to remain in his house a month...
...Naguib government was not only out to face down its opponents, but also to prepare Egypt for a new agreement with the British over the future of the Suez Canal zone. Propaganda Chief Salah Salem told the crowd that the old Wafdist regime had been making ready to concede much more to Britain than the present government; this was a clear indication that the Revolutionary Council was about ready to come to terms on a good, sound Suez deal. Grimacing from behind his dark glasses, Salem mimicked old Mustafa Nahas, and the crowd, in stitches, shouted the Arabic equivalent...
...went even further, blaming Tunisia's troubles on the nationalists, "men whose secret intentions were surely evil." Then he turned over Tunisia's Foreign Ministry to Resident De Hautecloque, agreed to withdraw Tunisian complaints from the U.N., and appointed a fat and wealthy pro-French Prime Minister, Salah Eddine Ben Mohammed Baccouche, 69, who proudly wears the cross of a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor. It was a surprising victory for De Hautecloque. In Tunis, which is normally noisy at night, a rigid curfew kept things quiet except for the barking of dogs and the rumble...
Publicly, the Wafd bowed to their monarch's decision. Premier Nahas paid Afifi a congratulatory call, chatted for 40 minutes. Wafdist Foreign Minister Salah el Din, an anti-British firebrand, now in Rome, swallowed hard and welcomed the two appointments as "a natural choice...