Word: egyptianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...written help to withstand the Communists in the Middle East, got set to make an economic settlement with the British. The U.S. has already agreed to sell him 200,000 tons of surplus wheat, and the French have signed a $5,000,000 barter deal with him. The British-Egyptian compromise was worked out by World Bank President Eugene Black, the discreet and yam-voiced international civil servant from Georgia who also helped the Suez Canal Co. settle with Nasser last spring...
...that Gamal Abdel Nasser persists in calling Victory Day-actually the anniversary of the withdrawal of the unbeaten British and French troops from Suez two years ago-has become an Egyptian holiday. Last week it was observed with massed schoolboy gymnastics and by the symbolic refloating of one of the ships sunk to block the canal. It was also marked by a speech from a somewhat subdued Nasser, who for the first time attacked the Communists. His oratory hardly matched the invective he has expended on the West, but it was a start...
...left to the delegates from Indonesia and the Philippines to stand up against Communist pressure. Nasser himself seemed wholly unimpressed by the conciliatory moves the U.S. has recently made towards him-releasing $26 million in blocked funds, reviving the CARE relief program in Egypt, resuming the $13.5 million U.S.-Egyptian rural improvement service, leasing dredges for the Suez Canal. His press remains pathologically hostile to the U.S. But Nasser told Columnist Joseph Alsop last week: "Now is the time to normalize relations between my country...
AMMAN, Jordan, Dec. 10--The government has claimed the discovery of a new plot to smuggle Egyptian arms into Jordan...
...patrol reported seizing 1,000 rounds of Egyptian ammunition, other military equipment and two camels hidden in a cave in the southern part of the country. One man was arrested. He was described as an armed Arab from Egyptian-governed Gaza...