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Troubled Blueprint. The Middle Eastern Frontiersmen, who are rated by Westerners as extremely able but inexperienced, face huge stacks of trouble. From Cairo, Nasser keeps up a stream of anti-Hussein invective, accusing the King and his new Premier of being imperialist pawns and even of secretly encouraging Israeli ambitions. As a result of the end of the Arab-Israeli fighting in 1949, Jordan increased its population by about two-thirds; all of the new citizens are Palestinian Arabs, many of them refugees who feel no loyalty either to Hussein or to Jordan. Little Jordan (pop. 1,600,000) gets...
...Lebanon, the insurrection was more ambitious, recalling for awhile the 1958 civil war in which Christian President Camille Chamoun's government was in conflict with pro-Nasser Moslems until U.S. Marines restored order. When the dust settled, Chamoun stepped down and both Christians and Moslems united behind the presidency of ascetic General Fuad Chehab, a Christian Arab whose policy is pro-Western, yet also friendly to Egypt's Nasser. Last week's revolt against Chehab was led by the Popular Syrian Party, a right-wing Moslem group dedi cated to uniting Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq into...
...expropriate all foreign holdings that he has so far overlooked, including 150,000 acres of farm lands held by 2,614 aliens. Last week his government seized all French schools and ordered 300 French teachers out of the country. In prison awaiting trial on fantastic charges of plotting against Nasser, are four members of a French mission that was liquidating property seized after the collapse of the Suez invasion...
...Next, Nasser set Western alarm bells ringing by playing host to a Soviet naval delegation-which presented him with a model submarine-at the same time that Russian and Czech-built "naval units" were steaming into Egyptian ports to add muscle to his navy. Israeli newspapers warned that Nasser was about to reverse his stand against foreign bases by opening Alexandria to Moscow as a replacement for Russia's abandoned Albanian submarine base. Actually, Nasser granted a scant 35 minutes to the delegation's chief, Admiral Sergei G. Gorshkov, Commander in Chief of the Soviet Navy...
Potent Precautions. More likely, Nasser's newest venture into troubled waters involves Kuwait. On Christmas Eve Iraq's Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, keenly interested onlooker in India's invasion of Goa, said that he would follow suit by "liberating" the oil-drenched sheikdom "in the coming days." In the past, Nasser has had as little use for Kassem as for Arabia's harem kings, but recently there have been rumors of a reconciliation...