Word: sanhouri
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...crowd roared victoriously and promptly ran wild. It smashed into the State Council, grabbed Abdel el Sanhouri, Egypt's Chief Justice, who is rumored to be a Naguib supporter, and beat him badly. On hearing the news, National Guidance Minister Major Salem, a Nasser man, drove at a 70-mile-an-hour clip to the court, climbed atop a truck and shouted to the mob: "For God's sake, do not act like this! Do you want the British to walk in?" "The people have already shown their feelings enough," said the Interior Ministry, and the government banned...
This lesson learned, Nasser began one afternoon last week to mend some fences. He met with Naguib and Dr. Abdel el Sanhouri, chief of the State Council (Supreme Court). They talked earnestly until dark, then sped to the home of old Aly Maher, four times a Premier and a master of Egypt's political meteorology, to talk some more. Late that night, Aly Maher called in the press and announced that Nasser and his Revolutionary Command Council were relaxing their grip and would gradually turn Egypt toward parliamentary rule. The timetable: in June, the election...
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