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...palace in Damascus has been little more than a place where local politicians sip coffee while carrying out the long-distance orders of others. But last week the slouching sentries were snapping as never before. Egypt's Nasser had sent up his own commander in chief, Abdel Hakim Amer, on a special mission from Cairo-to make a restless partner happier with its lot. No longer was there any pretense that Syrians were running their own show...
...Have No Bananas. Turning up at Moscow's Hotel Sovetskaya for his first diplomatic reception since last summer, Nikita carefully nursed one small shot of vodka all evening as he toasted visiting General Hakim Amer, Nasser's grinning top soldier, and roasted "the imperialists and colonialists who try to rob and impose a perpetual yoke on the Arab people." The Soviet Union, "which harbors no such ambitions because it possesses all they have except bananas," said Khrushchev, "will not give a kopeck" to any joint East-West program for economic assistance. "We will help them ourselves...
Saudi Arabia. One man Murphy did not see was Nasser's commander in chief, General Abdel Hakim Amer. General Amer was absent on a flying visit to Saudi Arabia where he dined with King Saud, who six months ago was being blasted by Radio Cairo for having "plotted" the assassination of Nasser. Now the Cairo spokesmen cooed that Amer's visit was aimed at "purifying the Arab horizon...
...this count Nasser won 99.994% of the vote. It was even better than the 99.784% he racked up running for President of merely Egypt in 1956. As the Syrian Cabinet met under old President Shukri el Kuwatly to dissolve itself, Nasser raised his old Egyptian army comrade Abdel Hakim Amer to field marshal and appointed him commander of the republic's armed forces...
Aboard a shiny Soviet TU-IO4 jet airliner, General Amer flashed back to Cairo to take the word to President Nasser. Next day Cairo's press blared that the Soviet Union had granted Egypt a $175 million loan, and that Industry Minister Aziz Sidky would leave shortly for Moscow to negotiate detailed projects for building docks, drydocks and an automobile assembly plant, plus developing minerals and supplying tractors and machinery. "This is what Russian aid will do for you," explained Al Akhbar in a fine burst of reckless accounting. "It will find you and your son a job because...