Word: nasser
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...volatile element to a situation that was already as unstable as a vial of nitroglycerin. In Cairo, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians staged the biggest demonstration since the Six-Day War, demanding vengeance for "the blood of the martyrs." If one of the Israelis' objectives was to weaken Nasser, the raid seemed to be having the opposite effect -at least for the time being. "Nasser! Nasser!" screamed the crowds as Egypt's President drove to prayers at Al Azhar mosque with visiting Sudanese Premier Jaafar Nemery and Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Two newspapers in the Egyptian capital...
...proposed at a meeting with his British, French and Soviet counterparts in Manhattan that the Big Four try to implement a ceasefire. In Addis Ababa, U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers had a 75-minute talk with Yugoslavia's President Tito, who will see Gamal Abdel Nasser later this month in Cairo...
...respects to Washington's. For months, Egyptians have been grumbling because the Soviets refuse to supply them with offensive arms. The Kremlin fears that if it provides such arms, the result might be a war that could spread rapidly beyond the Middle East. But if Moscow keeps turning Nasser down, it risks losing leverage...
...their Soviet materiel, the Arabs have proved ineffectual. They have scored some successes since the war of attrition began last spring but they have paid dearly for every one. The Israelis, for instance, have systematically taken out the SA-2 surface-to-air missiles that the Russians gave Nasser and laid ruin to the radar system that was supposed to alert him to low-flying Israeli marauders...
...Arabs with hotter equipment-new MIG-23 "Foxbats" to replace destroyed MIG-21s or SA3 missiles in lieu of the SA-2s-is impractical. The Egyptians are scarcely able to handle what they have been given. In an unusually frank interview with U.S. Newsmen William Tuohy and Rowland Evans, Nasser admitted last week that "we have more planes than pilots." Nor is Moscow likely to order its own military advisers to expose themselves to danger by operating complex equipment under combat conditions. The Russians themselves have already suffered in Israel's attacks; in one incident last March, a number...