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...Eytan and Colonel Yigal Yadin, Israeli Chief of Operations, signed the 5,000-word armistice agreement. Colonels Seif edDin and Mohamed Rahmani signed for Egypt. Thus, in a smoke-filled salon of the Hotel des Roses on the island of Rhodes, peace-tentative but perhaps durable-came to the Middle East...
While the Arab Leaguers waited in Riyadh, the late Yahya's eldest son Prince Seif el Islam Ahmed captured the Yemenite capital of Sana. Ahmed el Wazir, who had proclaimed himself Imam after Yahya's death,, fled. Prince Ahmed, who had been his father's chosen heir all along, at last became Imam...
...Daventry 75 miles from London the Government-controlled British Broadcasting Corp. went into action early this week with a fine sputter of pro-British Arabic. Guest star on the opening program was none other than Seif-ul-Islam Al-Hussein, the son of the Imam of Yemen...
Died. Prince Ahmed Seif ed Din, 60, brother-in-law to the late King Fuad of Egypt; in Istanbul. One night in 1898, Ahmed encountered King Fuad in Cairo's hotspot Native Club, accused him of hav-ing mistreated Fuad's first wife (Ahmed's sister), shot him in the throat, so that the King ever after half-coughed, half-cackled. Ahmed cracked rocks for three penitential years, was then deported to an English asylum, escaped after 25 years, has since lived quietly on the Bosphorus...
Fuad I came to the throne poor, yet left a private fortune of $50,000,000 to Farouk I, thus making the new King probably the wealthiest Egyptian. His Late Majesty accomplished this by confiscating the estates of the mad Prince Ahmed Seif Eddin. That he was mad or at least mad at King Fuad, the Prince proved decisively by firing a bullet which lodged in His Majesty's throat. This made Fuad I often cough and gurgle horribly, and His Majesty carried the bullet to his tomb...