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...Nasser's generals made convenient scapegoats for him. He dismissed eleven of them, including the commanders of his army, navy and air force and Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, his lifelong friend, brother-in-law and deputy commander-in-chief. Of course, the generals had not performed so brilliantly. They had convinced Nasser that Egyptian tanks could defeat the Israelis in two days. Boasted one dapper general just before the fighting broke out: "Montgomery was a good general, but a little cautious. Now as for me, I say attack, attack and again attack." He was last seen...
...Egyptian military purges are apparently just beginning. All officers have been confined to their posts, all returning troops to their barracks. The generals and colonels who once flocked around Nasser's presidential villa have disappeared, their places taken by a clique of young captains and majors who have long been fed up with their high-living superiors. "For years, I have deprived the people for the army," Nasser told a friend last week. "But when the time came that I needed support, it was the people who gave...
Many Arabs were still convinced that their prime enemies are the U.S. and Britain-along with Israel. Al Ahram, Nasser's favorite newspaper, charged that the CIA goaded Israel to attack, and that just before the war the Pentagon shipped Israel 450 warplanes, 400 tanks and 1,000 pilots and navigators. Throughout the Islamic world, Moslem mullahs proclaimed American and British products unholy. Libyan mobs destroyed liquor stores as symbols of Anglo-American "imperialism," and King Idris demanded that the U.S. abandon its Wheelus Air Force Base. Egypt and Syria closed their ports to U.S. and British ships; Sudanese...
...already disclaimed the charge of U.S. involvement in the war, are anxious to maintain their ties to Washington. Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba is encouraging stranded tourists to visit his country. Even in Egypt, Foreign Office officials called in several Western European ambassadors last week, secretly asked them how Nasser could mend his relations with Washington without losing face. For all of Nasser's pro-Soviet posturing, the Communist Party is still outlawed in Egypt, and he does not want to plunge irrevocably into the Russian camp...
...most incredible bits of by play of the Middle East war was the Israeli-intercepted radio-telephone conversation between Egypt's President Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein, as they conspired to save face by blaming their disastrous defeat on U.S. and British air intervention. But was the identity of the voices firmly established? To test this point, London's Daily Telegraph submitted a recorded tape of the Nasser-Hussein talk to U.S. Physicist Lawrence Kersta, president of Voice-print Laboratories, Inc., in Somerville, N.J. Along with the tape went a two-year-old CBS News recording...