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Today, Sadat governs Egypt rather like the paternalistic elder of a maxi-village, which just happens to have 39 million people in it. Once regarded as an impetuous, dandified mediocrity, he has become more cautious since he succeeded Gamal Abdel Nasser as President in 1970. He usually makes decisions slowly but, as last week's events proved, he can make them very fast as well...
Often lacking well-developed institutional or ideological bases, political formations in the Arab world have frequently depended on personalities. Much of recent political formation in the Arab world has been a response towards or away from the actions and words of Gamal Abdel Nasser. The chapter on Nasserism (written by Jacqueline Ismael) gives another focus to the subject. That movement exemplified the complex and often vaguely-defined nature of political alliances in the Arab world, for "while Nasser lived, Nasserism meant most directly the leadership of Nasser. As an ideology, it remained incoherent, as a movement, unorganized." The survival...
...shorter but prices four times higher than in subsidized government stores-complained of constant increases in the cost of milk, meat and vegetables. While they suffered, the nation's remaining 10% prospered. The rich grew richer under President Anwar Sadat, who returned property sequestered by the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser and made private investment easier in a vain attempt to persuade upper-class Egyptians to put their money into productive enterprises rather than real estate, which provides better returns...
When Egyptian Strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser seized the Suez Canal in July 1956, Eden concluded that strong action was necessary to keep open what he regarded as the life line linking Britain to its Asian and East African colonies. He thus backed a joint British, French and Israeli invasion of Egypt in October. World opinion was outraged, as were many Britons; Washington was furious that it had not been consulted, while the Soviets threatened to send "volunteers" to help the Egyptians. Because of international pressure, the invading forces pulled out 21 days later. To escape blistering criticism, Eden...
...Syrian President Hafez Assad formally ended their year-long feud by announcing not only their reconciliation but also the creation of machinery for a closer alliance of their two states. No one seriously expects a return to the kind of Syrian-Egyptian union that blossomed and then failed in Gamal Abdel Nasser's day. Instead, observers interpreted the two leaders' reference to "unionist relations" to mean that they were coordinating their diplomatic drive to force Israel to the Geneva conference table early in the coming year...