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...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...
...abrupt demise of President Nasser dealt a resounding blow to further efforts to resolve the Middle East crisis. Amid all the tributes paid to this great man were traces of foreboding among the political leaders of the world. The absence of a powerful representative for the Arab nations can only aggravate the already explosive atmosphere in the contiguous region of the Suez. All too often the death of the great statesman produces a plethora of regret not accompanied by equally sincere actions and efforts...
Soviet Diagnosis. Anxious to protect their huge investment in arms and influence in Egypt, the Russians have been prepared for some time to cope with a new leadership. Hassanein Heikal, Al Ahram editor and Minister of Guidance, revealed in his newspaper last week that Nasser twice had thought about resigning because he was in increasing pain from diabetes, circulatory ailments and heart disease. No one knew this better than the Russians; it was their doctors who had been treating Nasser for his various disorders and who undoubtedly passed on their clinical charts to the members of the Politburo...
...Russians had a specific choice for successor, it was more likely Sabry than Sadat. Former secretary-general of the Arab Socialist Union, Egypt's only political party, Sabry was the most pro-Soviet of all of Nasser's advisers. But he was a difficult choice to put over. Not only is his health almost as bad as Nasser's was-he has a heart condition-but his personality is about as drab as Sadat's. Nevertheless, Sadat is likely to share considerable power with Sabry and Interior Minister and former Chief of Intelligence Shaarawi Gomaa...
EACH time a new crisis flares in the Middle East, Western oilmen are beset by a thousand and one Arabian nightmares. That has never been more the case than now, when the unstable elements of conflict in the post-Nasser Arab world could bring trouble at any time. Will the Arabs turn off the oil taps? Might Russia grab control of the world's richest reserves? And how badly would an interruption hurt...