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...land, our Nasser-You are our Beloved, 0 Gamal," shrilled the marchers of Damascus as they streamed in thousands-girl scouts, militia, mullahs, mothers, cadets and kerchiefed workers-through Liberation Square and the Street Called Straight. Students shuffling under the eucalyptus leafed arches chanted in unison: "Neither internationalism nor Communism but Arab nationalism." At the municipal stadium a festive crowd roared as desert riders staged a camel race. Thus, as their hero arrived from Cairo this week with his guest and fellow neutralist, Tito of Yugoslavia, the people of Nasser's northern province (pop. 4,000,000) began celebrating...
Only a year before, when Syrians welcomed Nasser as the new Saladin and his merger as "a turning point in world events," it seemed to his followers as if the tide of Arab nationalism might wash the whole Arab East into one Nasser ruled state. But the West threw up its dikes in Lebanon and Jordan, and the Communism that Nasser had invited into the Middle East was now helping Iraq's Premier Kassem to roll back the Arab nationalist flood from Baghdad...
...Syria itself there was now no visible opposition to Nasser's rule (the Communists and all other parties are banned), economic strains were being felt. Syrian foreign exchange holdings had shrunk in half in the merger's first year. Nasser's determination to force Syria's free-enterprise economy into Egypt's state socialist mold had sent private capital into flight, and threatened to make Syria's hard pound almost as soft as Egypt's. It had been a disastrous year for Syria's wheat and barley crops. But Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...first time, Premier Karim Kassem publicly jostled President Nasser for his place in Arab leadership...
...hardly the kind of guarantee the U.S. could give. But in an attempt to bring the U.S. around, the Shah received a special Soviet diplomatic mission to his country to draft a new Soviet-Iranian nonaggression treaty (a tactic he had previously deplored when Egypt's President Nasser tried...