Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson yesterday called the Egypian action "Illegal and potentially disastrous to the cause of peace." The Soviet Union, however, offered Arab nations "resolute resistance" on its part against "aggression" in the Middle East...
Nasser spared few of his Arab brothers his scorn. He attacked King Feisal of Saudi Arabia as an "Anglo-American agent" who is "like a snake seeking to bite." He dismissed King Hussein of Jordan as "an employee of the CIA." Classifying his foes under the Communist label of "imperialistic stooges," he also called President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia and the Shah of Iran "only the tools of America." He accused members of the federal government of Aden of being "traitors and agents" and called upon them to resign and do penance. Traveling further afield, he claimed that West Germany...
Ironic Discovery. In his fight to win absolute control over the Arab world and crush such moderates as Feisal and Hussein, Nasser badly needs a scapegoat. For the past two months, he has been preparing a diplomatic confrontation with the U.S., which fits that bill nicely. He put his plan into action when the Egyptian economy, which had been nearly bankrupted by his foreign adventures, was unexpectedly given a boost by the discovery of considerable oil deposits in the Gulf of Suez and in the western desert. They will bring Nasser $90 million this year and some $150 million...
...backed government. Instead, the Nasserite Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) is training an army of more than 5,000 men in nearby Yemen to take over when the British leave. Even as the British started evacuating the first of their 8,000 dependents last week, Arab extremists were threatening harm to their women and children. Those threats so far were just that, but elsewhere a total of 20 Arabs was killed during the week, seven of them children whose school bus blew up when it rolled over an anti-tank mine planted in the road. Several...
...blunt Nasser's thrust, King Hussein of Jordan went to Teheran last week for talks with the Shah of Iran. This week King Feisal, the leader of the more moderate Arab regimes, goes to London to make a plea for more arms aid. "We are obliged, however reluctantly, to defend ourselves," says Feisal, whose country is also infiltrated with pro-Nasser terrorists and has been bombed by Egyptian planes. The British are helping Feisal strengthen his army and build an air defense system. In London, he is expected to ask the British to refrain for the moment from giving...