Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mountainous Yemen on the southern shores of the Red Sea, war has become an established way of life. Monarchists backed by King Feisal of Saudi Arabia and militant republicans propped up by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser are locked in a no-win struggle that continues despite the signing of an armistice in 1965. Though he has lost some 5,000 Egyptian troops, Nasser vows to "stay in Yemen 20 years if necessary." Monarchist guerrillas, garrisoned in mountain caves, are not budging either. "We live here," says their military chieftain, Prince Hussein bin Ahmed. "We are prepared to fight...
...After a period of lull, the Yemen war has heated up again, but this time the bloodiest fighting is not between royalist and republican; it is among the republicans themselves, who control the southern third of the country (including the capital of San'a) with the help of Nasser's 47,000-man occupation army. Pro-republican tribesmen, who were originally glad of Nasser's help, have been angered by the arrogance and oppression of the Egyptians, are now in open revolt against Nasser's brutal puppet, Abdullah Sallal, who recently executed 15 of his former...
Held in the grip of a fanatical socialist party that seeks to wrest from Egypt's Nasser the leadership of the Arab left, Syria has become the epicenter on the seismographic chart of Middle Eastern turmoil. From the Sea of Galilee to the Gulf of Aden, its mortars and machine guns, tanks and terrorists ply their disruptive trade not only against Israel but against the nations of the Arab center and right...
Needed Propping. Though Jadid & Co. despise Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser for his "softness" and seek by their export of terror to take over his leadership, Syria has nonetheless been forced to cooperate with him. But even Egypt, long the revolutionary center of the Middle East, feels nervous about Damascus' rabid adventurism. In order to prevent a major war from growing out of Syria's madness, Nasser signed a mutual defense pact with Syria last November that demands consultation before any major attack on another country. The fact is that Syria's military is too weak...
Born. To Hoda Nasser, 23, eldest daughter of United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Hattem Sadek, 24, a presidential aide: their first child, a daughter; in Cairo...