The fanatic Moslem Brotherhood used to be the terror of Egypt; it murdered two Premiers and a police chief, and created shivers of concern among British commanders in the Canal Zone. But last week in a small, second-floor Cairo courtroom, ordinary Egyptians openly laughed at the Brotherhood as, one by one, its high dignitaries, shorn of their imposing beards, shambled forward to stammer confessions and recriminations like so many cringing schoolboys. The occasion: the trial of the Brotherhood leaders accused of attempting to assassinate Premier
Gamal Abdel Nasser (TIME, Nov. 8).
Wing Commander Gamal Salem, Nasser's Deputy Premier, one of three extraordinary...
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