Word: sudanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egyptian consul general in Jerusalem was deep in last year's plot to overthrow Jordan's King Hussein. Egyptian agents worked mightily, and unsuccessfully, to throw down Abdalla Khalil, doughty pro-Western Premier of the newly independent Sudan. Two years ago an Egyptian embassy "messenger" was convicted of trying to assassinate Iraqi leaders. Last year an Egyptian colonel named Ali Khashaba organized and financed a plot to kill Saudi Arabia's King Saud. Last week the U.S. Government published a sheaf of intelligence reports of Nasser's doings in Lebanon, where Moslem rebels have been getting...
...opinion of other former colonies who are U.S. allies: "The Arabs desire to weld their countries together and limit both Western and Communist encroachments in the area." The Parliament of Arab Morocco, where the U.S. has air bases, "forcibly denounced" the intervention. But Premier Abdullah Khalil of the Sudan, who is under constant pressure as Nasser's southern neighbor, expressed his "overwhelming joy," described the landings as "the turning point towards stability." And in Turkey the relief at the U.S. action was so unrestrained that Turkey's Baghdad Pact partners, Iran and Pakistan, had to appeal for caution...
...eliminated almost as many as defeats did on the playing field. The Afro-Asian section collapsed early, in angry disarray. Nationalist China withdrew rather than play Indonesia, which had defeated Red China. Turkey pulled out, claiming it should have been classed as European, not Afro-Asian. Neither Egypt nor Sudan would play Israel, which finally became the section champ by political default, without playing a single game...
...grain of truth in this story may be the tribesmen in the southern Sudan and elsewhere who still stand on one foot with the other foot held flat against the shin...
Full House. For nearly twelve hours Host Nkrumah shuttled back and forth between his Christiansborg Castle* and Accra's flag-draped airport to welcome delegates. As cannons boomed, planes disgorged the Foreign Ministers of Libya, Tunisia and the Sudan. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie sent his third son, Prince Sahle Selassie. The United Arab Federation's Foreign Minister, Mahmoud Fawzi, deplaned explaining that only ''very pressing and unforeseen circumstances" (i.e., an imminent trip to Moscow) prevented President Nasser himself from coming...