Word: israell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pretext of blaming "Zionist elements" for whipping up the unrest, Gomulka's regime intensified a campaign of anti-Semitism that began last summer, when Poland's highly placed Jewish minority balked at siding with the Arabs against Israel. Since then, the Jews' life has been increasingly uncomfortable. Last week the regime conspicuously made public the names of Jewish students arrested during the riots and decided, moreover, to visit the sins of the sons upon the fathers. It fired at least three top officials for their sons' complicity in the riots. In a nation that has often...
...result of this impasse was a postconference communique that was considerably blander than Russia would have liked. The only strong point was an expectable attack on U.S. policy in Viet Nam; West Germany and Israel were not even mentioned. Most significantly, Rumania withheld its signature from an endorsement of the nonproliferation treaty, while everyone else signed it. That was an open admission that, for the time being at least, Russia and Rumania have agreed to disagree, rather than to disengage, on some important issues...
...clearly only the week before, when Egypt was rocked by anti-government demonstrations. The trouble had started right in Helwan, where 3,000 workers took to the street to protest the leniency shown by a military court to four top officers accused of criminal responsibility for the defeat by Israel in June. Egged on by leftist agents of Nasser's own Arab Socialist Union Party, the workers attacked a local police post, were driven off only with riot guns. Their cause was quickly picked up by students of Egypt's three major universities, who turned downtown Cairo into...
...followed these demonstrations like a father," he told his audience, "for I consider each of these students my own child." There was no hiding the seriousness of his troubles. His people, long ridden by inflation and shortages, no longer convinced of inevitable victory in the jihad (holy war) against Israel and disillusioned by evidence of corruption in the government, have begun to question him and even turn against him. The left wing of his party is trying to turn the demonstrations into "the starting point for organized political action by the masses." No less restive is the political right, which...
More important, there is growing discontent among the officers of Nasser's army, who understandably resent their role as scapegoats for Israel's victory in June. As long as Nasser could count on the unquestioned admiration of his worshipful populace, no military leader dared lift a finger against him. But the admiration is now in question, the populace is no longer entirely worshipful, and the possibility of a military coup can no longer be dismissed. The fact that there is no visible movement of anti-Nasser officers means little, as Nasser himself well knows. Who, after...