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...When all has been said about Nasser, history may eventually come round to characterizing him as a "congenital liar" as early as the Suez crisis in 1956. History may even record that, charisma or no, the trail of debacles that marked the "progress" of this kiss-and-stab leader could be hallowed only by a people whose emotional orientation is permeated with no small measure of masochism. As for Nasser's ousting of the British from Egypt in the 1950s, it now remains for some more charismatic pharaoh to tackle the sterner task of, ejecting the Tovarish from...
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...
...Item: Hassanein Heikal, editor of Cairo's Al Ahram and Minister of Guidance (information), printed a eulogy to Nasser written by the moderately pro-Western Zakaria Mohieddin. That gave rise to speculation that Heikal was seeking to retrieve Mohieddin from obscurity. Once one of Nasser's intimates, Mohieddin's name had not even been mentioned in the Egyptian press since he fell out with Nasser in 1968 over economic policy and Egypt's increasing reliance on the Soviets...
...Item: Rumors from Cairo insisted that Nasser on his deathbed had designated Mohieddin his heir, which was not likely...
...Rogers and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. In a four-hour working dinner at the Soviet U.N. mission, Rogers brought up the question of missile violations and stressed the U.S. desire for rectification. Gromyko, in turn, accused Washington of tricking Cairo by promising Israel additional Phantom jets even though Nasser had agreed to a ceasefire...