Word: nasser
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...everlasting discredit, came out with much of its military armor untarnished by combat. With hardly a pause, the Syrians thus took up their prewar belligerence right where they had left off. If anything, the Baathist Party members who rule the country have become more brazen; even Egypt's Nasser cannot match them for extremism. They have not only cut themselves off completely from the West but are increasingly isolating themselves from other Arab nations, and even from their own people...
...world. Although a Moslem, he has steered carefully clear of the Arab-Israeli conflict. He ships oil to Israel, but has made friends (and exchanged visits) with Iraq's Arab Socialist President Abdel Rahman Aref, his western neighbor, and most other Arab leaders. But he abhors Nasser, whom he sees as a continuing threat to the security of all the Middle East...
...Arab world for its espousal of U.S. views: "If the Vietnamese guerrillas could contain the American Army, China would not hesitate to unleash its masses on South Viet Nam, Asia and even Russia." Later, Bourguiba described his fellow Arabs' belligerence against Israel as "vain obstinacy" and Gamal Abdel Nasser's closing of the Gulf of Aqaba as "a monumental miscalculation." He has also shocked Moslems by recommending birth control and the end of the Ramadan fast. In fact, Bourguiba habitually does something that is exceedingly rare in his part of the world: he talks straight...
...Nasser also faces a threat from his own intelligence service, which turned up the Amer plot. An unfathomable maze of gross and petty intrigue, the intelligence network, like the army, has undergone a top-to-bottom purge since the war, which showed up its almost total ignorance of Israeli plans and strategy. Among the first to go was the service's powerful top man, Sala Nasr. Last week Al Ahram announced that Nasr, too, had been arrested in connection with the Amer plot. Since Nasr ran a tight one-man show, turning his agents into almost a private army...
Taking it all in from a distance, the Egyptian masses themselves are growing restive. They realize all too well that Nasser is no longer infallible, either as a military strategist or as a national hero. Israel still occupies Sinai, and they want to know why. If it were not for the prospect of aid from oil-rich Arab neighbors, Egypt's economy would be bankrupt. All in all, times are tough for Gamal Abdel Nasser, who promised his country glory but gave it only gore...