Word: gamal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trying to rally enthusiasm for the Suez settlement, Egypt's young Strongman Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser faced a quarter million of his people one night last week in Alexandria's Manshiya Square. On that very spot, he said dramatically, as a schoolboy in 1930 he took part in his first anti-British demonstration, first saw authorities shoot down fellow Egyptians. "But I am alive," he cried, "participating in the freeing of my country...
...hour later Gamal Abdel Nasser sat unhurt in the Alexandria lawyers' club sipping a lemonade, once more apparently his old, softspoken, self-possessed self. The stain on his tunic turned out to be not blood but a fountain pen leak. The gunman cowered in jail and under police persuasion admitted he was Mahmoud...
Until the shooting, the people had never, given Gamal Abdel Nasser the affection they gave his pipe-smoking predecessor, General Naguib. Now, as Nasser's train passed through the delta cities, returning to Cairo, huge crowds spontaneously came out to cheer him. At the Cairo railway station, 100,000 people surged against police lines crying, "God bless Gamal." Besieged by admirers reaching out to embrace him, the Premier needed two hours to make what was ordinarily a ten-minute drive to his office. Eight wild shots had served him well...
Last week, in the graceful, columned Pharaonic hall of the Egyptian Parliament, the British finally agreed, once and for all, to leave. Britain's 34-year-old Minister of State Anthony Nutting signed the agreement with Egypt's equally young, 36-year-old strongman, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser. The 80,000 British troops are to begin embarking immediately from the Suez Canal Zone. By June 18, 1956-20 months from now-Egypt will be free of uniformed Britons for the first time in nearly three-quarters of a century, and master in its own house for the first...
...Egyptian government announced that henceforth the imams would all get their sermons-written and ready for delivery-direct from the Religious Affairs Ministry in Cairo. Imams who spoke their own minds would be fired by the ministry (which supports almost all of Egypt's mosques). Said Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser: "The revolution will not permit vindictiveness to triumph under the guise of religion." But not even Hitler or Stalin had ever attempted to dictate every word a preacher said...