Word: farouk
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...Geneviève was all for the idea, but her hopes so far are pinned on "a letter telling me that a group of Congressmen were hoping to invite me as an official guest of the U.S." Word drifted around Genoa that Egypt's deposed King Farouk, whose loutish antics have endeared him no more to Italians than to the Egyptians he liberated by departing, had not exactly been blackballed for membership in the elite local yacht club. The club's 12-man council merely dropped him a registered note, asking him to pretend that...
...Nasser assumed power in name as well as fact, it looked as if the long struggle for power was over. The shrewd and ambitious lieutenant colonel who masterminded the army revolt that ousted King Farouk had at last completed his triumph over the affable and beloved general he had put in as front...
Moving fast to consolidate the power he won after a six-week seesaw battle with Mohammed Naguib, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser turned last week to the problem of a faithless friend. During the years he risked his neck plotting the overthrow of King Farouk, Nasser handpicked every one of the 14 original members of the Revolutionary Command Council, including Major Khaled Mohed-dine. Nasser knew that husky, young (33) Moheddine had been a Communist, but he accepted his oath of loyalty and his pledge to quit the Communist Party...
Before Cairo's special post-revolution tribunal probing Farouk era corruption, a parade of witnesses itemized Zeezee's climb to riches...
...that night, in a towered, yellow, Nileside palace where Farouk once dallied, the R.C.C. fretted and wrestled with its decision. Nineteen months before the young soldiers, seeking a front man for the anti-Farouk uprising, had picked the bluff, respected, thrice-wounded soldier. The choice was happy: the nation cried "Yahish [long live] Mohammed Naguib," and flocked to him, holding out its centuries-old wounds. Naguib looked as a good father should−kindly, wise, genial. He smoked a pipe; he spoke softly and slowly; he waved aside guards and let the lowly approach. When they tried to kiss...