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...Vice President Kassim Hanga, who studied at Moscow's Lumumba University for 21 years. And if Red China's Premier Chou En-lai was interested, he had only to pop over from West Africa and talk with Peking's good friend, Foreign Minister Abdul Rahman Mohamed. "Babu" would certainly listen...
...babbled on, quieter but more dangerous men were busy. Back from the mainland, where they had gone in case the coup failed, rushed the people who would lead "the people": Afro-Shirazi Party Boss Abeid Karume and Umma's Abdul Rahman Mohammed, better known as "Babu" (Swahili for father). Karume, a burly, bull-necked labor leader who leans to Moscow (and therefore may be the group's moderate), became President, while Babu, whose experience in foreign affairs includes a recent trip to Peking, was named Foreign Minister. Vice President is Kassim Hanga, a bitter Zanzibari with a Russian...
...full-scale war. Behind Bobby's soothing words was the clear implication that the U.S. might curb its $12 million aid program to the chaotic and nearly bankrupt Indonesian economy. Sukarno got the message, expressed a willingness to discuss the crisis with Malaysia's Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and with Philippines President Diosdado Macapagal, who also opposes the federation. At week's end Bobby flew off to Manila and Kuala Lumpur, seeking an O.K. from Macapagal and the Tunku. Chances for a meeting of the three seem good...
...Baath high command decided upon a plague-on-both-your-houses gesture: Shabib, Jawad and five aides were hustled into another plane and sent into exile too-in Beirut. Strangely silent in the uproar was the one non-Baathist in a position of power, Iraq's President Abdul Salam Aref, who was reportedly under palace arrest...
...Singapore. Diplomatically, the Tunku got tough. He severed relations with Indonesia and with the Philippine government, which sponsored some anti-Malaysia demonstrations of its own-in support of tenuous Filipino claims to North Borneo. Then Abdul Rahman alerted the Malayan army reserve against the possibility that Sukarno might try to infiltrate Sarawak and North Borneo with guerrilla troops...