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...rebel radio voice frenziedly called for the "people" to pour into the streets "to destroy the remnants of the Kassem regime." Between exhortations, martial music filled the air, especially songs extolling Arab unity, and Alahu Akbar (God Is Great), a favorite hymn of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...devotedly declared, "I am Kassem's son," and Bachelor Kassem fondly called Aref "my son, my pupil, my brother," the two chiefs were soon quarreling. Having become master of Iraq, Kassem was in no mood to share the prize with Aref's other hero, Egypt's Nasser. Ordered into exile as Ambassador to West Germany, Aref pulled a gun in Kassem's presence but was disarmed and finally condemned to death as a traitor. Kassem changed the sentence to life imprisonment and in 1961 sentimentally and imprudently set Aref free...
Insecurely in control, and subject to vituperative attacks from Nasser's Radio Cairo, Kassem eagerly accepted the support of Iraq's well-organized Communist Party, wangled $800 million in arms and economic aid from the Soviet bloc, and voted the Communist line in the United Nations...
Former stockholders of the old Suez Canal Co. were firmly convinced in 1956 that they would never get a cent out of their nationalized investment. But with 1962 revenue at a whopping $149.5 million (45% above 1955), Nasser's canal officials have announced payment of the final $11.4 million installment on the $81.2 million compensation debt...
Responsible for the canal's success is its Egyptian boss, dynamic, balding Mahmoud Younis, 50, a onetime army engineer and a close friend of Nasser since the days when they shared an office at the Staff Officers College, Egypt's West Point. Though Younis had never sailed so much as a rowboat, Nasser picked him to run the busy waterway shortly after the British and French ship pilots withdrew from the canal in September 1956. At first, Younis had available only 26 trained pilots of the 250 normally required, but he kept the canal functioning around the clock...