Word: nasser
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...gunfire. When they tuned into Damascus radio at breakfast, Syrians learned that they had been "liberated" from the United Arab Republic, of which their country had been an uneasy part for nearly four years. In northern Syria, Aleppo radio went dead in the midst of the anthem, Beloved Nasser, Lover of Egypt and Syria -returning ten minutes later with a searing tirade against Nasser, the "tyrant" who "wished evil for the Arab people...
...government over to a civilian regime headed by a diffident, middle-roading law professor. The new Premier, Sorbonne-educated Dr. Mamoun ("Trusted One") Kuz-bari, 47, a former Minister of Justice, promised his countrymen constitutional government and "a true and democratic life." Jordan, swift to welcome any setback to Nasser, was the first country to recognize the new regime; it was followed by Turkey, which has also had strained relations with the U.A.R...
...flatly. "Of course it may give us a lot of trouble yet, but essentially it is gone, it is over. Colonialism, racialism are important, but they are overshadowed by this crisis-because if war comes, all else goes." He got surprising support from the U.A.R.'s Gamal Abdel Nasser, who opposes the Soviet demand for two Germanys since, if he sanctioned the principle of partition, it would prejudice the Arab case against Israel. Six other neutrals showed some understanding of what nonalignment means, and backed Nehru: Burma, Ceylon, Cyprus, Lebanon, Nepal and Tunisia...
...they listened to the speeches, the delegates presented a sharp study in contrasts. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was grave, aloof, sad-eyed, a figare out of the past. Some were old antagonists: Ethiopia and Somalia have been squabbling over borders for years. Some were mint-new friends: Nasser and Tunisia's Bourguiba met at Belgrade, having patched up their bitter, four-year-old quarrel. Even in their approach to the cold war, the delegates sharply differed: U.A.R.'s Nasser and U Nu ruthlessly repress their local Communists; Indonesia's Sukarno and Ghana's Nkrumah (fresh...
...Lebanon's Saeb Salaam. Presidents: Cuba's Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado, Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios, Ghana's Nkrumah, Indonesia's Sukarno, Mali's Keita, Somalia's Adben Abdullah Osman, the Sudan's Ibrahim Abboud, Tunisia's Bourguiba and the U.A.R.'s Nasser...