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...Nightly Raking. How far Feisal can go with his revolution will depend to some extent on the course that Gamal Abdel Nasser takes in the Middle East. For months the conflict in Yemen has kept Egypt and Saudi Arabia at loggerheads, and Cairo constantly mumbles threats of war. As a result, Feisal estimates that he must spend more than $1.5 billion for defense over the next five years. Money is no problem. This year Feisal expects to pump almost 1 billion bbl. of oil, worth $750 million to the government, which would put his country ahead of Kuwait...
This year was supposed to be different. The death last April of President Abdul Salam Aref removed the Kurds' most implacable foe. When his brother, Abdel Rahman Aref, took over, he called off plans for a new government offensive, declared that the Kurds were "our blood brothers." Aref freed five rebel leaders from house arrest and conceded two long-standing demands: a measure of local rule for Kurds, and Kurdish-language instruction in their schools. But Aref had a demand of his own. He wanted Rebel Chieftain Mullah Mustafa Barzani to disband his 15,000-man army, called pesh...
...role for a Soviet leader. All last week, during his private talks with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Russian Premier Aleksei Kosygin found himself forced to go soft on imperialism. At least that is what Soviet sources traveling with Kosygin were leaking to Western newsmen. "Actually," argued one Russian, "we are fighting Washington's battle. And we're having as much trouble restraining Nasser as you used to have restraining Chiang Kai-shek...
...Khrushchevian effort was Egypt, whose President Gamal Abdel Nasser he wooed with $2 billion worth of arms, agricultural aid and the Aswan High Dam. But with Khrushchev's downfall in 1964, Russian initiatives once again waned in the Middle East. Last week Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin set out to correct that. He flew to Cairo for an eight-day, fanfare-ridden series of talks and tours in the land of the pyramids...
Soviet penury in the area was soon repaid with poor political performance. A trend to the right set in. Nasser began mending his fences with the U.S. A moderate Prime Minister, Abdel Rahman Bazzaz, took over in Iraq. Yemen's little war cooled off, and even in steaming Syria the moderate wing of the socialist Baath Party seized the initiative from the extremists. So Moscow's new men, concluding that Nikita might not have been all wrong, have started the rubles flowing again...