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...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's elite so-called "storm troops...
...final plan, as described by the prosecutor, called for Amer and his men to seize command of the armed forces, arrest a number of top officials, including all cabinet members, and take control of the government. For the necessary payoffs, the government claims that Nasr gave $140,000 to Radwan...
Nasser got wind of the plot, however, and ordered Amer and his fellow officers arrested. When the army men prepared to fight rather than go peacefully, Radwan-up to then still unidentified as a conspirator-visited the villa and persuaded them to give up. Though last week's first twelve defendants pleaded not guilty, the trial's final verdict, which may not come for weeks, is practically a foregone conclusion. Two of the three judges are loyal Nasser generals; the third-appointed court chairman-is one of Nasser's vice presidents, Hussein el Shafei...
...seamanship of Lebanon's fisherfolk that staved off further disaster. Hero of the hour was Radwan Baltaji, the leathery little chief of Beirut's harbor pilots. On the second day, Radwan, in his jaunty red tarboosh, breached the raging surf in his tiny pilot boat and maneuvered into the shelter of the British cruiser Kenya, which had raced to the rescue from Suez. Using the cruiser's steel bulk as a floating breakwater, Radwan swerved broadside to the waves and slid into the quiet water in the lee of the wreck. Sixty-three women & children climbed down...