Word: hakim
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...order to retain the confidence of militant Arabs and, more crucially, of his own army. At the same time, it is doubtful whether he could long remain in power if he led the Arabs into another round and lost. He no longer shares power in Egypt with General Abdel Hakim Amer, who committed suicide?or so the government said?after the 1967 war, and so Nasser could not again place the blame for defeat on the army. Since 1967, he has had personal control of Egypt's military, and now he is alone at the top, without a scapegoat...
Maximos V Hakim, LL.D., Melchite Patriarch of Antioch and All the East...
Offer of Refuge. The accused ringleader of the plot, former Vice President and commander of the armed forces, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, had already paid his debt: shortly after his arrest last fall, Radio Cairo announced that he had poisoned himself, a report received with great skepticism. The twelve in court last week were accused of being Amer's main conspirators. Among them: Shams Badran, Minister of War during the conflict with Israel; Abbas Radwan, former Minister of the Interior; Salah Nasr, former chief of Nasser's intelligence service; and Galal Haridi, who had commanded Nasser...
...many years, the best friend and trusted confidant of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser was the chief of his armed forces, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer. But the two had a serious falling out after Egypt's disastrous defeat by Israel in June, and in September, while under house arrest for allegedly plotting a military coup, Amer either committed suicide-the official version of his death -or was killed. After his death, intelligence agents of another Arab state obtained in Cairo a 14-page document said to be Amer's last testament. Though the Middle East makes...
Cairo radio announced last week the death by suicide of Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, the onetime second in command to Gamal Abdel Nasser be fore he fell into disgrace over Egypt's defeat in the Arab-Israeli war. At the same time, the radio announced that Amer, 47, had already been buried in his home village of Astal, 150 miles south of Cairo. Whether Amer jumped or was pushed into eternity, the news of his "suicide" added new tension and suspicion in a country already seething dangerously with plots, resentments and repression...