Word: gamal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plebiscite is the democratic mumbo jumbo of the modern dictator. Last week 40-year-old Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser triumphantly ran off a plebiscite ratifying his power over two ancient countries, then stepped to his Cairo balcony and delivered his inaugural address to half a million screaming schoolchildren. "O youth," he shouted, "the United Arab Republic has come into being." The merger of Egypt and Syria, he said, now becomes "the basis of Arab union." "Mabrouk Gamal-Congratulations, Gamal," shrieked the schoolkids. Rockets burst overhead, parachuting small Egyptian and Syrian flags down on their heads. Egypt's top singer...
...every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, wrote Sir Isaac Newton in his third law of motion. He might also have been describing a political law for the Middle East. Last week, only days after Gamal Abdel Nasser had announced the union of Egypt and Syria in a new United Arab Republic, the Kings of Jordan and Iraq reacted by proclaiming a union of their two nations in a rival Arab Federation...
...Sahara oilfields and the port of Philippeville was blown up twice within ten days. A French divisional commander glumly admits that the F.L.N. is "incomparably better armed" than a year ago. The French have begun speaking of Bourguiba in terms they once used for Egypt's meddlesome Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...Long live Gamal, founder of Arab union!" roared the Cairo Deputies of the first leader to make a start toward the ancient dream of Arab brotherhood since Saladin united his Saracen hosts against the Crusaders in 1174. In Syria's Damascus the celebration was wilder. Bedouins whirled through the Arab sword dance. Soviet-made helicopters swooped overhead, 50,000 citizens paraded with their "Arab Unity" banners past the Parliament. Dark-suited legislators, who had just voted themselves and aging President Kuwatly out of jobs, produced guns from somewhere and blazed away into the sky in celebration...
...legislative house, one flag, one army. The Parliaments of both countries are scheduled to meet this week in Cairo and Damascus to nominate a presidential candidate-expected to be Nasser. "I am pleased now to accomplish my national Arab mission and hand over this dear trust to President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the young enthusiastic Arab who is full of loyalty to the Arab nation," declaimed the aging Kuwatly...