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...Aswan high dam, and Nasser's propagandists, covering the boss's anxious retreat, put out the naive-sounding line that Arabs must distinguish sharply between bad local Communists and good Russians. Nothing in the Syrian unpleasantness, wrote Nasser's trained seal. Editor Mohammed Heikal of Al Ahram, must be allowed to affect "in any way the great victory we achieved in earning the friendship of the Soviet Union...
Iraq's Prime Minister Abdul Karim Kassem abruptly summoned his military attaché from Cairo for emergency consultations. The Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram accused the Israelis of mobilizing and massing troops on the Jordanian frontier, and Cairo's Al Gumhuria. which never seems to get its history straight, added: "Once more we'll fight, and again...
...illiterate Middle East, radio propaganda is Nasser's strongest single weapon. If he himself is no Hitler, he has a palace full of little Goebbelses. His controlled press freely advocates assassination, as did Cairo's Al Ahram last week: "Chamoun will have no better fate than that of Nuri asSaid or any other traitor who betrayed his country." And Nasser's Damascus radio shamelessly spread the lie early last week that Lebanese rebels had killed ten U.S. marines...
...Cairo, Gamal Nasser's propagandists screeched their loudest at Jordan's embattled King Hussein. HUSSEIN SMUGGLES WEALTH TO SWITZERLAND, cried one headline. "How does King Hussein rule?" asked the newspaper Al Ahram. "Through prisons, guillotines, tanks and U.S. dollars." Radio Cairo's "Voice of the Arabs" called repeatedly for "death to the traitors who rule Jordan," put on a soap opera depicting a Hussein pursued by a fortuneteller croaking that his people will avenge his treasonous friendship with...
...that day the inflammatory Cairo press fanned up its own version. "Troops of the UNEF opened fire on Moushref when he emerged from a seething crowd and tried to put the Egyptian flag in place of the U.N. flag on the UNEF headquarters," said the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram. "He was hit in the back and fell in a pool of blood while still holding the Egyptian flag in his hand." Thereupon, because the forces of the U.N. had fired "at civilian inhabitants," Nasser announced that Egypt would "assume its responsibilities in the strip immediately." He appointed Major...