Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encircling Arab neighbors still beyond reach. The Arab countries, their armies and air forces rebuilding with major Soviet aid and advice, refuse to accept fully their defeat or abandon completely their long-range goal of eliminating Israel. The more responsible Arab leaders, including Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein, know that any early attack on Israel would only result in another resounding defeat. But in a measure they are prisoners of their Arab masses, long fed on the oratory of hate and revenge and embittered by the 26,000 sq. mi. of Arab territory...
...ends. The fedayeen, who owe no fealty to any government, are responsible only to themselves, and view any settlement as a betrayal and a disaster. They possess the power to sting Israel into repeated reprisals, and perhaps to whip Arab popular opinion to such a pitch that not even Nasser with all his prestige might dare a settlement with Israel. In Jordan, their primary staging area, they constitute virtually a state-within-a-state and could probably topple King Hussein and take over his splintered kingdom if they chose. And their power and influence are increasing all the time...
...most practical step Nasser took was to bring around the two leaders of the winter riot by, in effect, buying them off: Hassan Eid, the student organizer, became chairman of the na tional Students Union, and Helmy Murad, the leading faculty dissident, was appointed the government's new Minister of Education...
...Nasser soon learned, that was hardly what the demonstrations had been about. Egypt's students are chafing under harsh regulations of their conduct, including a ban on all public demonstrations. They have nothing but contempt for what they call "the society of coined slogans" produced by Nasser's controlled press. What is more, they bitterly resent the government's system of job placement, which often finally assigns them to fields for which they are unprepared...
...fail twice. Probably egged on by the violent Moslem Brotherhood, some 5,000 Mansoura high school boys, aged 14 to 17, went on a rampage against the decree. They were later joined by nonstudents, who turned the demonstration into a full-dress political protest with cries of "Down with Nasser!" When the mob marched on police headquarters, police opened fire at point-blank range, killing one blind high school student and three nonstudents...