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...blurted the details of the plot. That night, and on following days, more than a hundred plotters were jailed. They proved to be a handful of dissident army officers and some disgruntled landowners. But the hard core seemed to be supporters of Bourguiba's old foe, the late Salah ben Youssef, who lost a bitter struggle for control of Neo-Destour, Tunisia's only political party, and went into exile in 1955. When Ben Youssef was murdered in West Germany in 1961, his followers back home blamed Bourguiba agents, swore vengeance on Tunisia's boss himself...
Died. Major Salah Salem, 42, former Egyptian Minister of National Guidance and one of the original members of the officers' junta that overthrew King Farouk, a flamboyant opportunist who won international notoriety in 1953 as "the Dancing Major" when he was photographed dancing in his undershorts with Sudanese tribesmen during an abortive effort to persuade the Sudan to unite with Egypt; of a kidney ailment; in Cairo...
Perhaps the most powerful religious force working for Nasser is Cairo's 1,000-year-old al-Azhar University, greatest center of higher learning in the Islamic world and seat of an "Islamic Missions City" that attracts students from every Moslem land. Recently, one Omar Salah walked all the way from Ghana to enroll at al-Azhar. It is some measure of Nasser's expectations that al-Azhar has already awarded scholarships to 2,000 Africans-as many Africans as are now studying in the whole...
...Vacation. The outrage in Amman brought a quick end to the brief truce that had been established between Hus sein and Nasser a week earlier at an Arab League meeting in Lebanon. Jordan police arrested an Amman bookshop owner named Salah el Saffadi, who was said to have confessed that the explosives used to murder Majali had arrived at his bookstall from Syria innocuously labeled "press material." The two fugitive employees had dragged the bombs into the office building in suitcases the night before and set the fuses. One left the country by midnight. The other, said police, coolly collected...
After the seizure, dutiful banner head lines blossomed, and the president of the newspaper union, Salah Salem, jumped up on cue with a message of gushing gratitude to Nasser: "We thank you from the depths of our hearts for the fortunate move you took in turning over all the press resources, which are the main instruments of orientation and guidance to the people. By so doing, you have provided confirmation of the true meanings of the freedom of the press...