Word: gamal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus rejected by friend and foe alike, suspicious of any talk of compromising their rights to return to their homes in Israel, the refugees are ready emotional tinder for the incendiary troublemaking of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser...
Scarcely had Bourguiba opened his mouth when Egypt's 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...
...Cairo, Gamal Nasser's propagandists screeched their loudest at Jordan's embattled King Hussein. HUSSEIN SMUGGLES WEALTH TO SWITZERLAND, cried one headline. "How does King Hussein rule?" asked the newspaper Al Ahram. "Through prisons, guillotines, tanks and U.S. dollars." Radio Cairo's "Voice of the Arabs" called repeatedly for "death to the traitors who rule Jordan," put on a soap opera depicting a Hussein pursued by a fortuneteller croaking that his people will avenge his treasonous friendship with...
...time Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser commended himself to the world as a strongman of reason, more concerned to put his impoverished country on its feet than to stir trouble in the Middle East. But Nasser has increasingly resorted to the incendiary propaganda of the totalitarian dictator, has persistently used his radio Voice of the Arabs to incite the Palestinian refugees in Jordan, who brood in bitter idleness over their lost lands across the border in Israel...
...Kuwatly grabbed at the offer. "We accept your effort with all satisfaction," he said. In the U.N. the other Arab nations, anxious to forestall further Russian meddling in the Middle East, privately urged the Syrians to accept Saud's good offices. (The sole exception: Egypt, whose President Gamal Abdel Nasser regards Saud as a dangerous rival for leadership of the Arab world.) Then the word from Moscow-"An effort to evade U.N. debate of Syria's complaint," snarled Pravda-got through to Intelligence Chief Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj and his fellow leftists in the Syrian government...