Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gamal Abdel Nasser's talent for spreading subversion in the Middle East is equaled only by his instinct for sniffing out subversion at home. That instinct has never been keener. Last week his courts sentenced 93 plotters for trying to beat Nasser at his own game...
...powerful 500,000-member Moslem Brotherhood, a group of religious fanatics who want to ban all liquor, movie theaters and female education and live strictly by the Koran. Twelve years ago, six of its leaders were tried and executed and thousands more jailed after an attempt on Nasser's life. But by 1960, many of the members had served their terms and were plotting more mischief. One group specialized in making bombs. Another in power-station sabotage. Another in arms smuggling. After years of planning, a new assassination plot was arranged for July 1965, during the regime...
...Nasser agents got wind of the plot and ordered another massive roundup. Last week, after a four-month trial, seven of their leaders were ordered executed, another 85 will go to jail for terms ranging from one year to life...
Notes on the Table. A few days before the brotherhood's 92 were sentenced, one of Nasser's courts decreed a life sentence for Cairo Publisher Mustafa Amin, 52, who was accused of passing security information to an alleged CIA agent named Bruce Taylor Odell, officially listed as a political attaché at the U.S. embassy in Cairo (TIME, Aug. 6, 1965). Nasser's government claimed that Amin, a longtime confidant of Nasser before his arrest, met Odell regularly to divulge information on such matters as Nasser's relations with his Vice President and with...
...National Distillers Convention in Chicago, the next a small club date in New York State. The routines are generally just that. Working in his own custom-designed U.S.O. uniform, he bats out long, involved stories or one-liners ("I look at Jayne Mansfield and think, 'If only Nasser had them for tonsils'"). Then he winds up telling about his U.S.O. tours and plugs the Administration's Viet Nam policy...