Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Splendid Isolation. For months, Host Gamal Abdel Nasser had looked forward to using the conference to stake a claim as Africa's spokesman, black as well as Arab. Tshombe, whose African peers regard him with distaste as Patrice Lumumba's accused assassin and as a white-backed agent of "neocolonialism" as well, was sure to disrupt Nasser's tea party, and Nasser was determined to keep him out. Tshombe was just as determined...
...when the Cairo control tower turned away Tshombe's special Sabena flight because of "blocked runways." The Boeing flew on to Athens, where a furious Tshombe booked himself back to Cairo on a commercial Ethiopian airlines plane. The flight got in this time, but Tshombe was greeted by Nasser's security cops, whisked off to splendid isolation in Uruba Palace, Nasser's 40-room state guest house, where machine-gun-carrying Egyptian commandos were posted with orders to let no one in or out. "This is the dirtiest trick in history," howled Tshombe. "It's unprecedented...
...retaliation, cutting off food and phone service. All this set off a diplomatic brouhaha that ended only when Tshombe telephoned from Cairo two days later with word that as soon as the Egyptian and Algerian diplomats were released and had reached haven in Brazzaville across the river, Nasser would spring Tshombe. Escorted out of Leopoldville by Nigerian troops under U.N. command, the embassy staffs loaded three car ferries with everything from refrigerators to kitchen pans, sailed away to safety...
...removing the ambassador from government service altogether. Such steps are hardly likely to provide permanent security for a regime that is bitterly opposed by almost all of Iraq's powerful minority groups. The 3,000,000 Shia Moslems of the south are unhappy over Aref's recent Nasser-style nationalization of imports and exports, as well as his growing dependence on Cairo and Moscow. In the northern mountains, the 1,500,000 Kurds once again are restive, suspecting that Aref's promise to provide Kurdish "national rights" is little more than hollow words...
Paper & Promises. Unfortunately, the people most concerned, the Yemenis themselves, have yet to be heard from. A hardy and hard-fighting race, with long memories for feuds and vendettas, it may take some talking before they will lay down their arms. Nasser can perhaps make the republicans do his bidding, even to dumping their ailing President, Abdullah Sallal, if necessary. But only the royalist princes, not Feisal alone, can dispose of Imam Badr. A possible compromise might lie in recognizing the Imam as a religious potentate without civil powers. But until the contending parties in Yemen reach agreement, the accord...