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...most outspoken of the opposition parties is the National Progressive Unionist Party, a grouping of Marxists and socialists led by Khaled Mohieddin, who was known as the "Red Major" when he was a member of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Revolutionary Command Council. Among the leftist charges: much of the $10 billion given to Egypt by Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich Arab states since 1973 has never reached the people; a bribe of $1.5 million was paid to a government official to get a hotel project started near the Pyramids; the army sold a plane, a gift from another...
While the U.S. found Ethiopia strategic because its port of Massawa bordered on the Red Sea, providing U.S. nuclear submarines with a friendly port, so did the Israelis--for different reasons. Seeing Nasser commit 70,000 men into what is now the Democratic anti-monarchists, fearing the further spread of Arab influence and ever aware of the importance of maintaining an open seaway from the Indian Ocean through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean, the Israelis sent police-military advisers to Ethiopia to combat the Moslem independence group in Eritrea. At the same time the rebel Eritreans received support from...
Said Hanna Naesser, a physicist expelled from the West Bank by Israel four years ago: "This event has done a great deal to restore the faith of the people in the P.L.O." Sociologist Seri Nasser agreed. "I deplore that there are 34 people dead in Israel, just as I deplore that as a result of the Israeli retaliation there will be ten times as many people dead in refugee camps in Lebanon. But how can you blame us? You say this action is not very noble. Name a course we can take that is in fact noble. We have nowhere...
...Nasser's attitude changed, however, after the revolution broke out and he took his place at the helm. In 1953, when conflicts rocked the Revolutionary Command Council (to the extent of actually posing a danger to the revolution and the entire future of Egypt), I called on him at home and said...
...Nasser was listening very attentively. I went on, "It's only natural for changes to take place once we come to power, but this should never be at the expense of Egypt. We have unanimously elected you chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council. Therefore, we cannot possibly differ from you. So it should be made clear to all that anyone who can cooperate with you may stay with us, and anyone who cannot may resign ..." But Nasser wouldn't let me finish. Livid with rage, he suddenly interrupted me to object, and burst into an attack as though...