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...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...
Egypt's constitution allowed up to 60 days for the country to select a successor to President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Only nine days were needed. Last week, in Cairo's Victorian National Assembly building, 353 members of the Assembly formally selected Vice President Anwar Sadat as the new leader of the country. This week the populace will vote in a yes-or-no national referendum. The outcome is so certain that preparations are already under way for Sadat's inauguration two days later...
...Port Said and picked up the British tanks and the French planes and hurled them back into the sea. For him, for other black and brown and yellow men, and wherever the cry "Allahu akbar" (God is great) is heard from the minarets, the world has changed because of Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...slowly revived. The city had suffered massive destruction as the army routed the guerrillas. Burned-out automobiles and tanks were dragged from the streets. With electricity still out in many areas, street-corner hawkers selling kerosene lanterns did a brisker business than did peddlers offering pictures of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Shattered water mains were mended, but there were no pumps working to carry water to the top of Amman's hills. Over whole sections of the city hung the suffocating stench of death. A mass grave dug in the Ashrafiryeh section by the Jordanian army was discovered...