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Outside Cairo sprawls a rambling complex of buildings known as Military Factory 333. There President Gamal Abdel Nasser is trying to develop the powerful weapons system he needs to ensure military supremacy in the Middle East. From 333's workrooms last year came the first batch of missiles, a few 230-mile El-Zafir (Victory) types, and the 370-mile El-Kahir (Conqueror). Although their reliability is none too certain, the military leaders of nearby Israel have nervously noted Nasser's claims that Egypt's birds will have the range to blast important targets "just south...
Mysterious Misfortunes. Hence Israel's extraordinary interest in the key men who staff Factory 333. They are not Egyptians at all, but an estimated 200 German scientists and technicians, many of whom first learned their skills making V2s for Adolf Hitler. Ever since the Germans helped Nasser test-fire his first successful rockets last July, Israeli intelligence chiefs have been conducting a deadly underground war to force-or frighten-the German scientists away from the project...
Gamal Abdel Nasser still had the most popular commodity in the Middle East-the lure of Arab unity...
...Nasser agreed completely. "We refuse, if anybody asks us,'' he said, "to form a nominal union for outward appearances.'' Later, he fervently told a Syrian delegation headed by Baath Party Leaders Michel Aflak and Salah El-Bitar: "We believe the tide of revolutionary union in this generation is a historic opportunity which will not repeat itself." He also suggested that the Baathists broaden their new Syrian government to bring in popular-that is, Nasserite-elements...
...Crises." He got fast results. Within three days, pro-Nasser Lieut. General Louai Attassi was named president of the Syrian Council of the Revolutionary Command, and the council itself was enlarged to admit a Nasserite majority. Attassi predicted that union with Egypt and Iraq would be achieved "shortly," claiming, "This tripartite federation will spread and spread until the entire Arab world from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf is unified in one powerful state, weighing heavily in the balance of world power...