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CAIRO last week wore the synthetic festive air peculiar to Nasserism. In English, Arabic and Swahili, signs and pennants screamed: "Death to Lumumba's Murderers"; "French Killers, Hands Off Algiers"; "Freedom. Freedom to Kenyatta." As the smiling U.A.R. President arrived at Cairo University auditorium to welcome delegates to the grandiosely named third All-Africa People's Conference, phalanxes of young Arabs clapped rhythmically and shouted "Nas-ser." Framed against a huge black map of Africa with a red flaming torch thrust into its Congo heart, Nasser told the assembled delegates: "Nothing is more touching or close...
...bombers or as a refuge for them after a mission, since it is a mere 850 air miles from the Soviet border. But a powerful clique of Saudi royal princes has been ceaselessly nagging the King to toss the U.S.A.F. out of Dhahran. The princes were eager to appease Nasser and other Arab nationalists who had used the King's sufferance of a U.S. base on Arab soil as an excuse for attacks on the Saudi royal family...
...Truth About the 'Lavon Affair,' " written by a "trustworthy" special correspondent, the Rev. Humphrey Walz, a Presbyterian minister from Indiana. Walz maintains that in 1954 Israel was worried at the growing friendly relations between Egypt and the U.S. and, particularly, by a contemplated U.S. aid program to Nasser of $50 million...
...disrupt Egyptian-U.S. amity, the members of an Israeli secret organization were ordered to place bombs in U.S. owned business buildings and theaters and in USIA libraries in Alexandria and Cairo. The agents placed a couple of bombs before they were caught by Nasser's men. Two were executed and six went to jail for long terms...
Proof quickly came that Stevenson's fears were well grounded. In Cairo, Gamal Abdel Nasser defiantly announced that the U.A.R. would continue to give arms and aid to Gizenga as the "legitimate government."* And in a letter to India's Prime Minister Nehru. Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet government was "prepared, together with other states friendly toward the Republic of the Congo," to supply Gizenga with aid, assistance and help to restore "order, unity, law and integrity" to the Congo. As a gimmick to appeal to African sentiment, Khrushchev proposed that the U.N. force should be replaced...