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Domestic opposition to Hussein's rule has diminished over the years. At the beginning of his reign, the King permitted a large degree of democracy. But freedom bred instability, as radical Palestinian groups and supporters of Hussein's bitter enemy, the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, sought to undermine his regime. Hussein now rules as an absolute monarch. The return of political stability has promoted an unprecedented period of prosperity. Unemployment is low; the economy, based on agriculture, mining and tourism, is growing at an annual rate of about 10%. More than half the population lives today...
...Irish commander of the ill-fated UNIFIL in Lebanon, "are thumbing their noses at the U.N. and what it stands for." One notable breakdown: from 1956 until 1967, a force helped maintain an uneasy calm between Israel and Egypt, only to be ordered out of Egyptian territory by President Gamal Abdel Nasser shortly before the Six-Day War. One notable success: since 1964, U.N. troops have served as a buffer between the antagonistic Greek and Turkish populations on Cyprus...
...million cost of the first year of the mission. The U.S. force should also reassure the Israelis, who strongly pressed for it. They still recall that an earlier peace-keeping group that did not include Americans was expelled by Egypt's late President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1967, helping to set the stage for the Arab-Israeli war that followed less than a month later. The 82nd Airborne is not likely to be dislodged that easily from its new Middle East mission...
...difficult for Westerners to grasp the extent to which Gaddafi is the sole spirit and voice of a revolution that in twelve years has transformed this North African desert wasteland. In 1969, armed with Islamic zeal and a near fanatical belief that he was the heir to Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's pan-Arabic nationalism, Gaddafi and eleven other young officers deposed the conservative King Idris in a bloodless coup. Gaddafi has since established iron political control of his countrymen, largely by spreading Libya's abundant oil wealth among them. Says Fouad Zlitni, a true believer...
...organizing student groups in support of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser after the Suez crisis and the Israeli invasion of the Sinai. Expelled for starting a student strike, he finished secondary school with a tutor. He was devout, austere, puritanical and, from years of listening to Radio Cairo, a true believer in Arab nationalism. After graduating from Libya's military academy, he spent several months at Britain's Army Signal School; he would stride through the streets of London in flowing robes and headgear?at that time an act of prideful defiance for an Arab...