Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Morgue. The growing disorder of Farouk's personal life and the corruption and mismanagement of his government led to the 1952 coup d'état by a group of army officers headed by Major General Mohammed Naguib, who was later displaced by Gamal Abdel Nasser. Deposed, Farouk sailed off on his royal yacht and was said to have arrived at Naples in tears...
...death. As ex-King of Egypt, he died in exile in Rome, just as ex-King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, died in exile in Alexandria. Also ironic was the fact that in the week of Farouk's death, the man who had helped overthrow him, Gamal Abdel Nasser, was almost unanimously re-elected President of Egypt, obtaining an incredible 99.999% of the 6,950,000 votes cast. If the results were to be believed, only 65 hardy souls voted against Nasser, while 489 ballots were defaced and therefore held invalid...
...officials were not exactly jumping with joy. For one thing, anti-German feelings lie bone-deep in many Israelis; for another, everyone recognized that Erhard's decision was prompted less by a desire to do right by Israel than by a need to slap back at Gamal Abdel Nasser, who has been diplomatically flirting with East Germany...
...action on 1) extending the statute of limitation to permit the arrest and trial of Nazi murderers still at large, 2) forcing the return home of German scientists working on Egypt's rocket program, and 3) resuming the shipment of arms to Israel suspended last month because of Nasser's protests...
...Birrenbach flew back to Bonn to deliver Eshkol's message, foreign ministers of 13 Arab states assembled in Cairo to decide on a common course of action against Bonn. Nasser, sensing a chance to rally the Arabs behind him, was fast off the mark with a four-point proposal of penalties, ranging from the withdrawal of Arab ambassadors from Bonn to a complete trade boycott of West Germany. "If the Jews win this battle, then the Arabs had better go bury their faces in the mud!" he cried...