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...story in Amman, Talal began getting word of a plot at home. Naif, deciding he liked the feel of power, was conniving with two cabinet ministers and Jordan's chief justice to dissolve Parliament and proclaim himself King. He would be backed by the guns of the Arab Legion's Hashemite regiment, the King's bodyguard...
...British know that Talal is popular in the Arab world, that they would run into trouble if they tried to deny him Jordan's throne in favor of Naif. There are other signs that Talal, for his part, realizes he must have the British: without their subsidy and support, tiny, barren Jordan would become a fifth-rate country, easy prey for a powerful neighbor. The London Observer reported that Talal had recently signed a document assuring Britain that he would carry on his father's policies. When his plane stopped in Athens on the way from Switzerland, Talal...
...only people who stand to profit without making a move are the Russians. Egypt's masters have on occasion proved themselves as ineffectual as any of the others. But, by virtue of past glory and present intellectual influence, Egypt is looked on by many people in the Arab world as a potential leader. Whether or not Egypt can ever be fit for that role, the country holds a strategic position in the Middle East...
...jester and general handy man, recruits poker partners and, occasionally, pretty dancing partners; Tabet, Pulley and a half dozen similar hangers-on are generally believed to be neck-deep in graft, were implicated in the scandal of the sale of faulty arms to the Egyptian army, uncovered after the Arab-Israeli...
...West. Spent most of World War II in Berlin. In 1946, while awaiting trial in Paris as a war criminal, he escaped, since then has lived in Egypt as King Farouk's honored guest. Ambition: to be head of an independent Palestinian state. Methods: 1) recruiting of an Arab army from the 800,000 bitter, hopeless refugees driven from their homes by the Arab-Israeli war; 2) murder and terrorism through such groups as his own "Salvation Army," the Moslem Brotherhood, the Crusaders of Islam. His most recent victim: Jordan's King Abdullah...