Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Gamal Abdel Nasser-bent, as ever, on bolstering his claim to leadership of the Arab world -stepped in and offered Tunisia a shipload of guns. So did Communist Czechoslovakia. (The Western guess was that the arms offered by Nasser would come from Czechoslovakia, too.) Bourguiba accepted the Egyptian offer, but continued to make it clear that he would rather be supplied by the West. Bourguiba is one of the West's staunchest friends in the Arab world. To the U.S. State Department the alternatives seemed clear: either the West must furnish Bourguiba with the guns he wanted...
...President takes to TV, the British Prime Minister rises in the House of Commons, but when Nikita Khrushchev wants to tell the world, he attends a cocktail party. Last week the scene was Moscow's Egyptian embassy, the occasion a reception for Egypt's War Minister Major General Abdel Hakim Amer. Nikita easily held the center of the stage. But in a brief encounter, he was almost upstaged by an amateur, TIME-LIFE Photographer John Bryson. Bryson's account...
...Egyptian authorities refused to let a Jordan airliner land in Cairo with its 20 passengers, including a seven-man Jordan delegation to an Arab educational conference, a Jordanian airline spokesman charged in Amman...
...even if this happens they believe it is a necessary risk because the only alternative is unlimited Soviet-Egyptian arms deliveries to Tunisia...
Egypt was dismayed by Russia's display of arrogant power. Nasser's dispatch of Egyptian troops to Syria suggested he did not like another bullyboy muscling in on his territory. Probability: Nasser would be increasingly cool to offers of further Russian...