Word: serre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sudan could use a new Messiah. Dictator Ibrahim Abboud, the army general who grabbed power in 1958, was overthrown last fall, and Interim Prime Minister Serr el Khatim el Khalifa has been hard put to hold the country together. The Negro south, long restive, went into open rebellion against Arab rule, and its demands for independence forced Khalifa to go ahead with the balloting only in the northern two-thirds of the nation. A leftist minority within his own Cabinet tried to sabotage the elections altogether and seize power for itself. Under heavy leftist pressure, Khalifa turned the nation into...
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