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...hailed as the man who destroyed Egypt's corrupt past and gave Arabs a new dignity. His picture, with its Pepsodent smile, is found in every corner of the Middle East, from Iraqi bazaars to the huts of royalist Yemeni tribesmen who still cling to Nasser's picture even though they are fighting Nasser's troops...
...What Nasser has working for him is the deep desire of all Arabs to be united in a single Arab nation, and their conviction-grudging or enthusiastic-that Nasser represents the best hope of achieving it. This dream of unity harks back to the golden age of the 7th century when, spurred by the messianic Moslem religion handed down by Mohammed the Prophet. Arab warriors burst from their desert peninsula and conquered everything in sight. In less than 150 years, the Arabs swept victoriously north to Asia Minor and the walls of Byzantine Constantinople, south over Persia and Afghanistan...
Moon Orbit. Hence the enormous prestige Nasser won in 1956, when he survived the massed assault of Britain, France and Israel in the Suez War. Arabs ignored the fact that the Egyptians were beaten in the field and that only intervention by the U.S. and the Soviet Union saved Nasser from collapse. What mattered was that Nasser had engaged the imperialists and Israel in battle, and managed to survive. When Egypt later proved that it had the technical skill to operate the Suez Canal efficiently on its own. Arab nationalists were as proud as if Nasser had personally orbited...
...Arab brethren also share pride in Nasser's achievements at home in the years since Suez. Cairo, a city as populous as Chicago, has become a bustling, busy metropolis. New skyscrapers line the banks of the Nile, throwing glittering light on the river at night and by day reflecting in their glass walls the stately grace of the sails of feluccas headed upriver with cargoes of wheat and lime...
...brown-faced children with magic tricks as they did their grandfathers 50 years ago. Imbaba's junk market is still unchanged, and bent nails and half-shoelaces are traded with solemnity and diligence. The red flowerpot of the tarboosh has all but vanished from Cairenes' heads, and Nasser has even made considerable progress in his campaign to get his city folk to switch to European clothes from the nightshirt-like galabiya. Most astonishing is the fact that a visitor seldom sees a barefoot man, woman or child. Even urchins from the Cairo slums wear shoes-and socks. Today...