Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Banking heavily on his friendship with the West and his reputation as a reasonable Arab, Jordan's King Hussein went to the U.S. last week on a delicate mission. Speaking for both himself and his latter-day ally, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hussein sought U.S. support for softening Israel's hardening terms for peace. He went at the job with vigor. Seemingly popping up everywhere, the King dashed from TV stations to speakers' platforms to conferences. He appeared on Face the Nation, delivered a major address at Georgetown University, had lunch at Washington...
...trouble was that Hussein's tone was more convincing than his words. Aside from an early-and never repeated-statement that Nasser might be willing to let Israeli ships use the Suez Canal "under certain conditions," Hussein said little that he had not been saying for months. The Arabs were willing to recognize Israel's right to exist, but not necessarily to recognize Israel. They wanted a "just and lasting peace" but not a formal peace treaty. And before any settlement could even be considered, Israel must withdraw its troops from occupied Arab lands. At one point...
Half-Measures. Such terms, hardly calculated to bring the Arabs rushing to the conference table, came just when both Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein were trying to work out a formula for negotiations through a U.N. mediator. Both rulers had made known their willingness, if not to sign a formal peace treaty, at least to end their 20-year "state of hostilities" with Israel. But the Israelis are in no mood to accept such half-measures. They are now convinced that it is much wiser to hold on to what they have than...
...happened, a somewhat shaky form of government quickly came into being. Meeting in Cairo under the auspices of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the two terrorist groups-the National Liberation Front (N.L.F.) and the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY)-had been unable to agree for weeks on forming a new government. But when they got wind of Britain's new intentions, they hastily got together. Neither group would say much about the new government, but N.L.F. men, including Leader Qahtan al Shaabi, are almost certain to end up in key positions. Reason: the N.L.F. not only...
While industry mergers, possibly into four regional groups, will probably cut costs and afford greater efficiency, Sir John admits that things wouldn't be looking up "if the oil companies had not been held to ransom by Mr. Nasser." The shutdown of the Suez Canal came as a boon for shipbuilders. The Japanese, who got their first boost with the 1956 closing of the canal, underbid the European builders by about 10% and soon had their order books bulging, with delivery dates stretching through 1971. Swan, Hunter & Tyne promised faster delivery, contracted to finish its first Esso supertanker...