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| | TIME.com: Comrade Against Comrade -- Jan. 27, 1986 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | There were reports that President Ali Nasser Muhammad, 46, had been injured, that he had been killed, and that he had survived. |
 | | There were rumors that four key plotters who tried to take over the government, including former President Abdul Fattah Ismail and Vice President Ali Ahmed Nasser Antar, had been executed. |
 | | On an ideological basis, the struggle appeared to pit the pragmatic Marxist, President Muhammad, who has sought more amicable relations with his Arab neighbors and would welcome aid from such countries as Saudi Arabia, against the more zealously pro-Moscow Ismail and Antar. |
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