Word: gamal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past few weeks, Israel has held a cursory discussion with United Nations Mediator Gunnar Jarring. Allon asked the King whether Jordan might be interested in carrying on peace talks with Israel, either through Jarring or directly. Hussein acknowledged that conditions have changed since the death of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, and that his throne is stronger as a result of Jordan's civil war. But he held that the time was not ripe for unilateral discussions. Even so, one result of the border meeting is that broader negotiations with Representatives of other Arab states can be expected...
...criticized the late Abdul Gamal Nasser for "uniting the Arab world on the basis of Israeli's non-legitimacy." Nasser, he said, encouraged Arab nations "to live with a fantasy...
...fragility of such an arrangement. Both are under pressure from their war-weary people to keep the guns silent. In the face of rising prices for meat, rice and vegetables, inadequate transportation and telephone service, and a nagging water shortage in Cairo, Egyptians are beginning to grumble audibly-and Gamal Abdel Nasser is no longer around to hush them. Few are eager to resume the war with Israel. But President Anwar Sadat, who took over last month after Nasser's death, is also aware that significant numbers of his constituents-most notably the armed forces-are becoming increasingly desperate...
...conditions of poverty, disease and illiteracy even worse, in many cases, than that of the refugees in the camps. Poverty anywhere is deplorable, but in a region blessed with billions of dollars of oil, it is criminal. I can think of no more fitting and lasting memorial to Gamal Abdel Nasser [Oct. 12] than a massive aid plan to improve the lot of the Arab poor who loved him so much...
When the late Gamal Abdel Nasser staged a presidential referendum in 1965, he ran up a 99.9% vote of approval. Only 65 voters out of 6,951,206 rebuffed him. Last week his successor as Egypt's President fared considerably worse. More than 7,100,000 voters were asked to vote naam (yes) or la (no) on the question "Do you agree that Anwar Sadat should be President?" They gave the 52-year-old former Vice President no more than a 90.04% naam vote, and 711,252 Egyptians voted la. Two days after the election and 19 days after...