Word: ahram
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...nation Assembly, in which 27 Asian-African votes can block any decisive action, justice is a sometime thing. After canvassing lobby opinion in the U.N.'s glass-walled conference building for two days (WEST PLOTTING BEHIND-SCENES CONSPIRACY, headlined Cairo's semiofficial Al Ahram), the U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge drafted two compromise resolutions. One repeated for the sixth time the Assembly's demand for Israeli withdrawal. The other called vaguely for "the placing of the UNEF on the Egyptian-Israeli armistice demarcation line...
...cutback in public spending. Nasser's need for the canal revenues is the best weapon the rest of the world has against his attempts to haggle too long over a Suez political settlement. At week's end, in the usual Egyptian style, the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram announced that Egypt would negotiate with Britain and France only if new governments took over in those countries and apologized to Egypt for their predecessors' misdeeds...
...Tito's pleasure dome on the Adriatic island of Brioni. Here, where the ancient galleys and triremes of Rome once anchored, and at a later date Mussolini played, were gathered three unlikely bedfellows. THE MOST IMPORTANT POLITICAL CONFERENCE OF THE POSTWAR WORLD headlined Cairo's Al Ahram. "These three peace men," said the captive Egyptian press, would bring sanity to a mad world, and in this meeting of Europe, Asia and Africa would create a "Third World Force." Tito too basked in the splendor of the moment...
...tanks. Bringing up the rear were 28 monstrous Stalin tanks with huge guns poking out of long, beetle-like turrets. Overhead, Russian MIGs screamed past flights of overage British Vampires and Meteors. Every Arab state but Iraq had sent contingents to swell the show, and Cairo's Al Ahram proudly called it a display of "the glory of Arabism represented by the strength of the united Arab nation, whose united army will protect the Arab nation against imperialism and Zionism...
Whatever the Kremlin's motives, its pronouncement had lightning results in the Levant. "The end of an illusion," wailed a Beirut newspaper. "Arabs can no longer play East and West against each other." In Cairo the newspaper Al Ahram denounced the Russians for "meddling in the Middle East." "Iniquitous," cried Syria's Defense Minister. "The U.S.S.R. lumps aggressors with victims." And in Israel old David Ben-Gurion, sniffing the air, shed his khaki battle dress and turned up at work wearing a nonbelligerent white shirt instead...