Word: shweirib
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Dates: during 1969-1969
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...allowed to cross the borders. Much of the coup seemed to be run by radio; an announcer would say which officials had been dismissed and which kept in office and all, amazingly, seemed to obey. Only one name was given prominence in connection with the coup-Colonel Saaduddin Abu Shweirib, who was made the army's new Chief of Staff. Shweirib, who is in his 30s, studied at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. Sacked from the army in 1967 because he was suspected of republican sympathies, he has since worked as a notary...
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