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...Cairo last week, Egypt's No. 2 man, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, stormed at a Syrian delegation: "Is Nasserism a crime in Syria now? If it is, how can we face the future together? If there are in Damascus people who consider Nasserism a crime, then how do you expect me to cooperate with them?" What set off Amer's flood of rhetorical questions was the threat posed to Nasser's dream of Arab unity by the gyrations of Syria's Baath Party leaders, headed by tall, lugubrious Premier Salah Bitar. The Baath leadership wants...
...blare of military bands and the skirl of bagpipes, a troopship last week steamed into Egypt's sweltering Sinai port of Tor. Aboard were 2,000 Egyptian soldiers, the first big contingent returning from the war in Yemen. Army Chief of Staff Lieut. General Ali Amer hailed them as "victorious troops who have achieved a 20th century miracle," to wit: "Snatching the Yemeni people from the pit of poverty, ignorance and disease and leading them toward the path of dignity and development...
Plastered Skirmishers. Yemen's roads and fields are littered with the remains of dead Egyptians left to rot unburied. "Let the dogs eat the Egyptian dogs," spat a tribesman. The few Egyptians taken prisoner seem dazed and dejected. Private Amer Hussein Bahid, 24, of Cairo, was due for discharge in January after three years' army service. Instead, his company was airlifted to San'a and rushed off to launch a counterattack at Beit Miran. Said he: "About 25 miles from San'a we were ambushed. My company never got a chance to fight...
...A.A.U. championships, Oerter got off the best series ever managed by one man in one meet, fell short of Trusenev's record by just ½ in. As Russian Coach Gavril Korobkov said: "It would be no mistake to say that our fourth match with the Amer ican team will be the most difficult...
...CONSERVATIVE SOCIETY OF AMER ICA is run from New Orleans by a former Pan American airline pilot named Kent Courtney, 43, who, with his wife Phoebe, started publishing anti-Communist literature in 1954 with only $18 in capital. Courtney, an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Louisiana on the States' Rights ticket in 1960, believes that "socialist and Communist influence now pervades the thinking of our Federal Government and the two major political parties." He claims members in 45 states, distributes about half a million pamphlets a year, is an active, unit-founding member of the John Birch Society...