Word: farouk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago that Egypt's King Farouk assembled royalty and high officials from six other countries at his luxurious country estate at Inshass for the first Arab summit on the Palestinian problem. That conclave broke up after agreeing on some high-sounding platitudes, most of its principals were subsequently assassinated or forced out of office. The discouraging precedent of that initial summit has been echoed virtually every time Arab leaders have gathered to wrestle with the Palestinian problem. The meeting called in Cairo last week by Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser was no better-and perhaps worse...
...light of the rivalries and lingering enmities among the Arabs, it is hardly surprising Nasser's summit came off no more successfully than Farouk's. Before the conclave got under way, Egypt's Minister of National Guidance, Mohammed Heikal, proclaimed: "This is a meeting of Arab leaders who think that they cannot sit idle in their air-conditioned offices making proclamations about the crisis in Jordan." The group, indeed, was able to engineer a merciful cease-fire in Jordan. But Arab leaders also had plenty of opportunity to sit in their air-conditioned rooms at the Nile...
Nasser, who was 52, had ruled Egypt since 1952, when he overthrew the monarchy of King Farouk. He was so popular with his people that even when he offered to resign after his humiliating defeat by the Israelis in 1967, crowds poured into Cairo's streets shouting his name and he withdrew the resignation...