Word: mohieddin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dismissed pro-Westerner was Deputy Premier Zakaria Mohieddin, 49, a member of the original group of army officers that overthrew King Farouk; Mohieddin was named by Nasser as his successor when Nasser briefly re signed from office shortly after last June's Six-Day War. Also fired was Ali Sabry, 47, a former Vice President and far-leftist, who remains the boss of Nasser's Arab Socialist Union, the country's only legal political "party...
...could never have defeated the united legions of Arabia: the U.S. and Britain must have helped. And then his despairing and disbelieving followers heard Nasser announce his resignation from "every official post and every political role." He was, he said, handing the Egyptian presidency over to Vice President Zakaria Mohieddin...
...their heads. By bus and train, camel and foot, peasants poured into Cairo, inveighing against the "U.S. imperialists" and pleading "Nasser, stay with us!" If, as some intelligence sources indicate, an incipient military coup was in the works against Nasser, the plotters got the message. So did everybody else. Mohieddin announced that he would refuse to take over. Nasser's Cabinet voted not to accept his resignation; Nasser's rubber-stamp National Assembly did the same. Just as he had probably calculated all along, Nasser was able to "bow to the voice of the people" and keep...
Idea of Firing. For a longer-range solution, Mohieddin has started a birth-control program that he hopes will eventually reduce the number of mouths to feed. He also vows to crack down on the country's notoriously inefficient government-run factories. "We must make it honorable to do a day's work," he says. "And we must get used to the idea of firing people who will not work." As the 70,000 Egyptian troops return from Yemen, Mohieddin intends to demobilize many of them and retrain them for jobs in industry...
Though nominally a socialist, Mohieddin is above all a pragmatist. His tough policies for the nation (which he calls "Egypt," rather than the grandiose "United Arab Republic") have created such a favorable impression abroad that the U.S. has resumed its food shipments, and France, Kuwait, and the Chase Manhattan Bank have kicked in $75 million in emergency credit as a vote of confidence in Egypt's new direction...