Word: gumhuria
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...start a new hate campaign against the U.S. And just as things were looking up in relations between the two countries: in the wake of new aid negotiations, Nasser's minions had recently become chummy with Americans in Cairo. No longer. Last week the government-owned newspaper Al Gumhuria accused the CIA of plotting to overthrow Nasser "by any means, even assassination." Suddenly the heat was on again, and even the friendliest Egyptians found it inconvenient to join their old American friends for a quiet meal...
Cairo was enraged at Baath's "trickery, treachery and terrorism." Thundered Egypt's Al Gumhuria: "Punishment from God is sure to come. Or if not from God, from Nasser...
...Akhbar, Nasser's highly publicized visit to India last spring played second fiddle to a story with the banner head: MAD KILLER SHOT IN SUBURBS. Nasser was further irked by Akhbar's juicy coverage of Cairo society divorces. Against this formula, the official government organ, Al Gumhuria (the Republic), went so deeply into the red that not even giveaway promotion schemes could pull...
Cairo rumor now has it that Nasser would like to scuttle Gumhuria and turn Akhbar into a kind of Egyptian Pravda. But most Egyptian newsmen argued that in the end Nasser would recognize that he needed the Amins and their lively journalism to get his own message across. Such was obviously the hope of the Amins themselves, who scrupulously refrained from any criticism of Nasser, would only say cautiously: "There has been something of a misunderstanding...
...nationalization move was conducted on legalistic lines. But the display of legitimacy was mere show-window stuff for the fellahin in Cairo's bazaars. In truth. Cairo's privately owned newspapers had embarrassed Nasser by making money, an endeavor in which his house organ. Al Gumhuria, has notably failed...