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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...
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...
...Cairo, as Egyptians last week celebrated the 17th anniversary of the overthrow of King Farouk and the establishment of the republic, Nasser told the congress of the ruling Arab Socialist Union: "We now begin the stage of liberation. We shall fight for the restoration of our land, not only Egyptian lands but all Arab lands." Calling for a war of attrition, he warned that "we are now engaged in a long battle to drain the enemy's strength." In an attempt to create more Arab cooperation against Israel, he called for a new Arab summit conference, noting that "conditions...
What About Farouk? In his column last week in fact, Heikal contended that "those who called for an immediate military solution through war realize that after two years this challenge is larger than, they had imagined." As for a peaceful solution, its "exponents find themselves face to face with the inevitability of the need to struggle." His conclusion (undoubtedly cleared with Nasser) is a study in hard-line ambiguity: "Force is the only way, and force is a long and hard course of many stages and various methods...
...small village near Cairo, and made his reputation as a war correspondent in 1948 in Palestine, where he first met Captain Gamal Abdel Nasser. By 1952 they had become fast friends. Just before the revolution, Nasser pointedly asked him what he thought should be done about the Farouk regime. "I knew then," Heikal says, "that something was afoot and that they had confidence...