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...Sudan in midsummer is an oven of a land where temperatures soar to 120° day after day and tempers tend to get even hotter. Since he took power 26 months ago, Major General Jaafar Numeiry, 41, leader of the ruling Revolutionary Command Council, has faced eight attempted coups, most of them during the summer months. Last week members of the army elite that governs this equatorial nation of 15 million staged the most confusing hot-weather spectacular since it won independence from Britain 15 years ago. In the space of a few days, rebellious officers toppled the government, imprisoned...
Mohammed and Marx. In Khartoum, the principal leader of the coup was Major Hashem al Atta, 35. Atta and two other Communist sympathizers had been booted off the ruling seven-officer Revolutionary Command Council by Numeiry last November, ostensibly for leaking state secrets. Atta, supported by the presidential guard and an armored division, skillfully directed the takeover of Numeiry's headquarters and Omdurman radio, which proclaimed that "democratic Sudan has been established." Atta named Lieut. Colonel Babakr al Nour, 37, to be president of a revolutionary council, and himself vice president...
...former general and one of the chief rivals of President Nguyen Van Thieu, who last week formally declared his candidacy. Two weeks ago, Minh told some reporters that Thieu was at least partially responsible for the killing of the brothers. As Minh told it, Thieu, then a colonel in command of the South Vietnamese 5th Division, was to surround Saigon's cream-colored Gia Long Palace and "protect the life of President Diem" by taking him into custody. But Thieu got to the palace too late, Minh said, and the Ngos had already slipped away. Their bodies turned...
...Payoff. NASA expects such an enormous payoff from Apollo 15 that it is already calling the flight the first truly scientific expedition to the moon. The lunar module Falcon has been packed with 2,500 Ibs. of added scientific and life-support equipment. The two moon walkers, Flight Commander David R. Scott, 39, a veteran of the earth-orbiting flights of Gemini 8 and Apollo 9, and LM Pilot James B. Irwin, 41, a rookie, have had such a heavy dose of geology training that NASA's usually critical scientists say that the astronauts are ready...
...Dollar Hoards. The Japanese originally planned to build their own huge jet airbus, but Japan's planemakers could not produce it as quickly as passengers need it. With domestic air runs already booked to overflowing, the government made a command decision to seek a foreign partner. A study mission headed by astute Hidemasa Kimura, an aeronautics professor, visited five manufacturers: The Netherlands' Fokker, British Aircraft Corp., Lockheed, McDonnell-Douglas and Boeing...