Word: nasserian
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...long session with the President. The U.S. letter's net: 1) it was up to the Security Council to decide the meeting's "composition" and "conditions" under "established rules," and 2) the meeting should deal with the whole range of Middle East problems (i.e., including Russian and Nasserian troublemaking). "To put peace and security on a more stable basis in the Middle East," wrote Ike, "requires far more than merely a consideration of Lebanon and Jordan. These situations are but isolated manifestations of far broader problems. In my opinion, the instability of peace and security is in large...
...morally bound to go to the aid of Lebanon, and there was just the faintest chance that a quick movement of troops to Lebanon might bolster whatever resistance there might still be in Iraq. The President's advisers agreed that U.S. intervention would surely reap hot Russian and Nasserian denunciation, but not, in all probability, armed opposition. Crisply and quickly, General Twining laid out a precise account of how U.S. forces could be deployed to help Lebanon...
...Pros. As the week passed, more light was shed on the men behind General El-Kassim. While their followers cried, "We are your soldiers, Gamal Abdel Nasser," the rebels seemed to be only in part a clique of Nasserian army officers. About half of the new ministers were civilians, and of these, five belonged to the banned ultranationalist, right-wing Istiqlal Party, whose members were old pros at nationalist plotting long before Nasser was ever heard of. After General El-Kassim, the most powerful man on the Council of State is Mohammed Mahdi Kubah, 52, the brains behind...
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