Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gamal Abdel Nasser is about as enthusiastic about the zaars as he is about bar mitzvahs, and has long been anxious to eliminate them as a vestige of the Dark Ages. Nasser's Interior Ministry has finally got around to banning them completely under threat of a six-month to three-year jail term. Uprooting the zaars may prove difficult in remote villages, but Nasser will have no trouble in the cities, where a more sophisticated populace has outgrown them and where the neighbors are bound to hear the racket if anyone tries to stage one. Scores...
Ever since Syria annulled its ill-starred union with Egypt last year, it has been groping for the right groove. First it leaned too far to the right, reversing reforms in the rush to erase Nasser's traces.A ground swell of pro-Nasser sentiment surged up as a result, and the army, anxious to restore stability, staged the March coup and dissolved Parliament...
...promised to hold free elections soon, and said that he would form a "Cabinet of National Unity" that would include all factions but the Nasserites and the Communists. Predictably, Beirut's pro-Nasser Al-anwar scorned the new government as A FARCE THAT CANNOT CONTINUE...
Republic partner; many could tell a few Nasser stories of their own. But they were reluctant to condemn the most powerful of the Arab nations. Nasser commands most of the Arab nations' military strength and contributes the lion's share (34%) of financial support for the Arab League, which works from a nine-story building in Cairo on projects ranging from boycotting Israel to Boy Scout jamborees. Said one delegate: "The Arab League cannot exist without the largest Arab nation...
League officials said that a decision would have to wait until Egypt returned to the conference-which was indefinitely adjourned. But Nasser hinted that Egypt might quit the 17-year-old Arab League and start a new socialist unity club representing Arab people rather than Arab governments. It could hardly be more ineffectual...