Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three weeks, Congress had been kicking around a Commodity Credit Corp. supplementary appropriations bill. The House added a rider banning $37 million in food shipments to Nasser's United Arab Republic; at Johnson's urgent request, the Senate voted to allow such shipments if the President found them "in the national interest" (TIME, Feb. 12); under heavy White House pressure, the House last week accepted the Senate version...
House-Senate conference-committee members threatened to revive the prohibition on food to Nasser unless the Administration agreed to delay the installation shutdown until at least June 30. Appearing before the conferees were Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman and VA Administrator William Driver, just completing his first week on the job. Freeman agreed to delaying the shutdown, signed a letter to that effect. Driver also indicated-or at least so the Congressmen thought-that he would go along...
...Munich last week, a handful of German students gathered to hear a lecture on the "New Drama in Egypt." Instead of talking about drama, however, Egyptian Director-Actor Abbas Antar created it by dousing himself with gasoline, igniting himself with a match and screaming, "I am demonstrating for Nasser...
...fiery follower lay in a hospital bed last week, Gamal Abdel Nasser scored one of his greatest diplomatic victories by playing it cool. It began with an invitation to East Germany's Red Boss Walter Ulbricht to pay a six-day "friendship visit" to Cairo, beginning Feb. 26. Bonn's reaction was one of noisy panic at this threat to the Hallstein Doctrine, which decrees that any nation giving diplomatic recognition to East Germany must forfeit its ties with West Germany...
...House had voted the cutoff after U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel Nasser served notice that he intends to continue shipment of arms to Congolese rebels and averred that if the U.S. did not like his brand of foreign policy it could "go jump in the lake." For his part, Johnson told newsmen last week that if the U.S. is to protect its "vital interests, in this part of the world, where tensions are very high, then the President must have freedom of action to act in the best interest of all the people of this land...