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Cairo. Replacing Henry A. Byroade in precarious Nasser-land: Raymond Arthur Hare, 55, Director General of the Foreign Service since 1954, an old Mid-East specialist with embassy service in Beirut, Teheran, Cairo and Jidda in the 1930s and '40s, as ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Lebanon in 1950 and '53. Dapper Ray Hare, who looks like Ronald Colman, has a profound knowledge of Arab society and economic life, but no previous ties with Nasser, hence symbolizes a fresh, new era of U.S.-Egyptian policy...
...accomplish its delicate mission Washington sent its ablest Middle East specialist, Career Ambassador Loy Henderson, at the head of a topflight delegation of 23 observers to a Baghdad Pact council meeting in Teheran. The pact's five members-Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Britain-were ready with a program that accented economic rather than military measures. Henderson, backed by President Eisenhower's request for $100 million from Congress for special Middle East aid, pitched right in. Sample projects agreed on: a joint five-nation study for development of the Tigris-Euphrates basin's water resources, a joint...
Main interest must focus on James Mason who plays the role of British Ambassador's valet in neutral Turkey. Top secret minutes from the Teheran conference and plans for the Normandy invasion are stuffed in the Embassy's flimsy safe, and Mason knows the combination. Frustrated by his menial life, he photographs the documents and sells the film to the incredulous Nazis. While he amasses roughly two hundred thousand pounds in weekly installments, both Berlin and London bureaucrats are so mystified that they neither put the secret information to use, nor stop the security leak. And there is a woman...
...last week a furtive man carrying a small, neat bundle came out of a little house in Teheran's Goethe Street...
...after making a fresh batch was the chatelaine, grey-haired, motherly Mme. Kalyopi Kalo-gridi, a Greek woman whose title "Queen of the Smugglers" had been well earned in two criminal convictions and the bet ter part of a lifetime spent in the illicit drug trade. Kalyopi's Teheran plant was capable of turning out each week up to 110 Ibs. of deadly dope worth nearly $500,000 on the wholesale market. Disguised as gift packages, some 90% of Kalyopi's product was shipped...