Word: abdel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DAMASCUS, Syria, March 12--President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic wooed Iraq's people today and denounced their premier as a man trying to spread a Communist reign of terror across the Arab world...
BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 9--Iraqi rebels claimed tonight that they held the oilrich north, under air attack, and were fanning out over Iraq from Mosul. The government claimed the rebel uprising was destroyed by bombers and troops of Premier Abdel Kassem's Baghdad regime...
...free-enterprise economy into Egypt's state socialist mold had sent private capital into flight, and threatened to make Syria's hard pound almost as soft as Egypt's. It had been a disastrous year for Syria's wheat and barley crops. But Gamal Abdel Nasser himself seemed still to be the most popular man in the country. To make the new republic's first anniversary memorable, Nasser planned the first formal distribution of 155,000 acres of land to the peasants...
...months since he seized power in Baghdad, wiry Strongman Karim Kassem has been obsessed by one problem: how to escape domination by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. To fight off the Arab nationalists in his midst, Kassem all but handed control of the Baghdad mob to the Communists, did not even intervene when the Reds organized a stone-throwing reception for U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree (TIME, Dec. 29). Last week, for the first time, there were signs that Kassem might have come to realize that Moscow's embrace can be even more crushing than Cairo...
...chasm that split Gamal Abdel Nasser from the West more than two years ago in the Anglo-French invasion of Suez was papered over by money last week. The strongman of the Nile, needing written help to withstand the Communists in the Middle East, got set to make an economic settlement with the British. The U.S. has already agreed to sell him 200,000 tons of surplus wheat, and the French have signed a $5,000,000 barter deal with him. The British-Egyptian compromise was worked out by World Bank President Eugene Black, the discreet and yam-voiced international...