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...Peking, exiled Head of State Norodom Sihanouk, a prince of the Khmer line who abdicated the throne in 1955 to get closer to his people, declared the republic a "monstrous swindle...
...meeting of a secret group called Dobbat el Ahrar (the Free Officers), who gradually worked out a scheme to gain Egyptian independence. On July 23, 1952, troops under the Free Officers' command surrounded strategic buildings in Cairo and handed the profligate Farouk an ultimatum demanding that he renounce his throne. The King promptly sailed for Italy. Egypt's first President was Major General Mohammed Naguib, a military hero familiar to the public. But the new power in the country was the 34-year-old lieutenant colonel who had masterminded the brilliant, virtually bloodless coup: Gamal Abdel Nasser. Two years later...
...potential antagonists, and a sizable portion of his country is in Israeli hands. During the fighting in Amman, the 34-year-old monarch kept a helicopter standing by at Al-Hummar in case he lost the battle and was forced to flee after 17 years on a troubled throne. In the days to come, Hussein may regret that he never gave his pilot the order...
...summer of 1958, the spectacle ended. Feisal, then 23, was murdered in his Baghdad palace by a clique of revolutionary army officers whose political passions had been aroused by the antiroyalist call of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Hussein, only 22, narrowly escaped a similar death; his life and throne were saved by the intervention of British paratroopers. In Amman, the boy King took the train of events heavily. "I have received confirmation of the murder of my cousin, King Feisal of Iraq, and all his royal family," he told reporters. "They are only the last in a caravan...
After 17 years on the throne-and nine assassination attempts-Hussein works hard at the job. He has become a good King-although his Palestinian subjects complain that he has too many corrupt relatives. His chronic fault is that he has always wavered in making decisions. Despite some vacillation last week, it seemed that Hussein finally had mustered the will to execute his purpose. As he said this summer, when he was beginning to lose patience with the guerrillas: "I am not the kind of person who will quit. This mission is part of me and I am part...