Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shadow expends most of its energy on flame-licked scenes of the Arab-Israeli war, and Douglas expends his trying to find a clue to the character of Marcus; but the smoke screens dreamed up by Writer-Director Melville Shavelson are nearly impenetrable. As Marcus' unhappy wife, Angie Dickinson stays at home, smiling through her fears and reminiscing in murky flashbacks. As the hero's lively helpmate in the Haganah, Senta Berger manages to make half-baked fiction look like a whole girl. Guest Star John Wayne, perhaps inadvertently, turns his role as a Pentagon overlord into...
...split between the party's leftist moderates, led by Hafez, and a powerful, pro-Peking group of officers led by General Salah Jadid. Where Hafez sought closer ties with Egypt, Jadid demanded a complete break. Where Hafez pledged Syria to a nonintervention agreement with other Arab nations, Jadid wanted Syria free to meddle where it might. As for Hafez' Russian-style socialism, Jadid insisted on a far stricter Red Chinese version. Last December their feud exploded into the open when Hafez discovered a Jadid plot to overthrow him. Hafez chased his rival underground, forced pro-Jadid Premier Youssef...
...recent months, Gamal Abdel Nasser has been the very model of sweet reasonableness. He has counseled caution in Arab threats of war against Israel, taken steps to end the war in Yemen and toned down his blasts at the U.S. Perhaps the strain of moderation was too great, for last week he was back at his old propaganda stand, happily blasting everyone in sight...
...union with Syria. Warming to his subject, Nasser accused Saudi Arabia's King Feisal of financing a plot against him last summer, and of trying to form a conservative, anti-Nasser "Islamic alliance" with Iran's Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi. "Their object," Nasser steamed, "is to destroy Arab nationalism and unity." And who are the real architects behind the alliance? "Obviously," Nasser answered, "Washington and London." With that, Nasser all but tore up the six-month-old Egyptian-Saudi truce on Yemen, declaring that he would not withdraw his 70,000 troops, as promised, until an "acceptable" government...
What was eating Nasser all of a sudden? Genuine fear of encirclement by the Arab conservatives? Frustration over his expensive troop commitment in Yemen? Some old Middle East hands thought it might be merely a yearning for the good old days when he was constantly embroiled in international intrigue. They suggest that President Johnson may have stirred him up by sending Averell Harriman to Cairo with a virtual invitation to join the Viet Nam peace effort. "Lyndon's gone and dragged Nasser away from the fireplace and onto the balcony again," sighs one American expert. "Once...