Word: farouk
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...have the pay packets to travel and to buy their luxuries on the black market. But they cannot get uncensored news, and miss "most of all an open society," as one said last week. They freely complain that their life was better in the long-gone days of King Farouk, blame Nasser for dragging them into a war in Yemen that was none of Egypt's concern, and were for the first time convinced, by the 1967 war, that Israel is their real enemy. With little or no hope for the future, they respond in many cases by simply packing...
...dismissed pro-Westerner was Deputy Premier Zakaria Mohieddin, 49, a member of the original group of army officers that overthrew King Farouk; Mohieddin was named by Nasser as his successor when Nasser briefly re signed from office shortly after last June's Six-Day War. Also fired was Ali Sabry, 47, a former Vice President and far-leftist, who remains the boss of Nasser's Arab Socialist Union, the country's only legal political "party...
...possibility of a military coup can no longer be dismissed. The fact that there is no visible movement of anti-Nasser officers means little, as Nasser himself well knows. Who, after all, had ever heard of Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser before he led the coup that overthrew King Farouk...
...then perform in public-Um Kalthoum as a child often sang Koranic songs for five or ten hours at a stretch. Her pay: 1$ per performance. At 15, she bought her first dress, later switched from religious to romantic songs, and instantly became a Pan-Arabic institution. King Farouk awarded her Egypt's highest civilian decoration, and she reciprocated by singing political songs, first, Farouk, May You Live Forever and later, for Nasser, Gamal and the Nile Are Creators of the Dam. When, in 1953, a black-bordered box in Egyptian newspapers reported that a hyperthyroid condition endangered...
...from Hussein. By this year all was ready, and the plot was scheduled for the end of July during the regime's 13th anniversary celebrations. It seemed thorough in every detail. Hussein Tawfic, a veteran terrorist who had successfully rubbed out one of King Farouk's finance ministers, was put in command of a select group assigned to blow up Nasser in his motorcade. If he failed, other brothers were ready to blast Nasser off his presidential train somewhere between Cairo and Alexandria, and still others were prepared to shoot him on the way to his home...