Word: gamal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gamal Abdel Nasser, no longer talking about "a role wandering the Arab world looking for a hero," last week issued a conciliatory statement designed to show that he 1) is not a Russian pawn, 2) is willing to respect international law (though he did not mention the Suez Canal) and 3) has no ambitions to dominate an Arab empire. Excerpts...
With his armed forces shattered and large chunks of his nation under foreign occupation. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser persisted in behaving like a victor. "Today." bragged Cairo's government-backed Al Gumhuria, "it is Egypt that will dictate terms." The Anglo-French forces, insisted the Egyptian dictator, must leave Egypt immediately-and as soon as they had gone, the U.N. police force must also get out of the Canal Zone and confine itself to patrolling the old 1949 Egyptian-Israeli armistice line. As for the Suez question, said Nasser, not until British and French forces left Egypt...
...most part, Egypt's supposedly volatile people accepted the triple assaults of their nation's invaders with re markable discipline and calm. To this rule there was one notable exception: Gamal Abdel Nasser. From the moment of the first attack, the aggressive, self-confident man who had staked Egypt's life on the premise that Britain and France would never use force was visibly shocked and distraught...
...been made abundantly clear to other Arab nations that to rely on Egypt to crush the hated Israelis would be to rely on a frail reed indeed. If they had achieved nothing else, the British, French and Israelis had dealt a severe blow, perhaps a fatal one. to Gamal Abdel Nasser's dream of dominating the Arab world...
...voice was subdued, grim, with none of the usual flamboyant confidence. From his little office in ex-King Farouk's boathouse on the Nile, Gamal Abdel Nasser appealed to 22½ million Egyptians. His words carried also to an enormous Arab audience from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf, from Casablanca to Basra...