Word: nasser
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...front of public buildings, people were still being stopped for security checks. Huge ack-ack guns clanked their way through the city streets. The Arab Socialist Union, Egypt's only political party, began recruiting a popular militia. To keep returning Egyptian troops from spilling the real battle story, Nasser quarantined them outside Cairo; and many families that lost sons or husbands in the war have not yet been notified of their deaths...
...scene had an almost eerie unreality. There was Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, architect of his nation's most staggering defeat, beaming to the crowds with the confidence of a conqueror. And there was an equally ebullient Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny, outwardly unconcerned that his latest Middle East adventure was dissolving like a Sahara mirage. When the smiling Presidents met at Cairo International Airport last week, Podgorny took Nasser's hand and held it high in a boxer's victory gesture. It was almost as if a dazed Sonny Liston, having just been counted...
...hear Nasser and the rest of the Arab world tell it, they had not only clobbered Israel; they were getting ready to do it all over again. Egypt, which lost 356 planes and 700 tanks in the war, was receiving regular shipments of Soviet MIGs and tanks. To make up for the 15,000 Egyptian soldiers killed, captured or missing, Nasser simply recalled 15,000 of his troops from Yemen. Why not? They had not been notoriously successful there either...
...attack. "Let no one think we will talk peace with the aggressors," bristled a Cairo newspaper editor. "The war is not over. We are preparing for the second round, and this time we will call the shots." To make sure he would do the shot calling, Nasser sacked his Prime Minister, named himself to the job, organized a new 28-man Cabinet, and took full charge of the Arab Socialist Union...
...three days of talks with Podgorny, Nasser sought more arms, economic aid and-even more important-sorely needed reaffirmation of Soviet friendship. Whatever promises he received, he may well have received a warning along with them-an order to cool his belligerence at least for a while. For Russia remains deeply nettled with Nasser for his inept military performance and his cocky determination to accept only hardware, not advice, from Moscow. This time around, Nasser will have to make concessions...