Word: egypt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Windfall from the West. Gene Black played the role of honest broker so well that at week's end the first representatives of Her Majesty's government to appear in Egypt since 1957 descended on Cairo. In the final moments of bargaining, the British did not get quite all they hoped for. Knowing how much his own back-bench Tories hate Nasser, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had pressed hard to get Nasser first to release two Britons jailed as spies at the time of the Suez affair. In the end, Macmillan decided that he could not hold...
Agreement was reached on the key financial points: 1) Britain would unfreeze Nasser's $210 million sterling balances; 2) Egypt would turn back $87 million of them to pay for British properties seized at the time of the Suez landings; 3) Cairo would abandon its bill against Britain for Suez war damage, and the British would waive their claims for equipment seized by the Egyptians from the once great British base at Suez...
...windfall that might ease his heavy dependence on Moscow, was perhaps one result of the Communist offensive against Nasser in Syria and Iraq that the Russians may not have expected. Nasser has belatedly begun to move against the Communists. He has arrested several hundred of them in Syria and Egypt, including some Egyptian newsmen, though this news has significantly not appeared in the Egyptian press...
Joanovici was reported seen in Germany, Switzerland, Egypt. But he turned up in Haifa, Israel, in a small group of Jewish refugees arriving by plane from Morocco. He gave his name as Joseph Levy. "All ten of the passengers on the plane had passports in the name of Joseph Levy," he adds with a grin...
...investigate" the troubled Syrian situation, Nasser announced appointment of a three-man committee, including his police boss, Zakaria Mohieddin, and Vice President Akram Hourani, the Baath Socialist leader who rushed his country into union with Egypt last year precisely to avert a Communist takeover...