Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colony of Aden and the South Arabian Federation, which is due for package independence in 1968. Early in the week four South Arabian Cabinet ministers ar rived in London to discuss ways for South Arabia to avert almost certain subversion and take-over by Egypt's Nasser once Britain pulls out its 13,000 troops and closes down Aden's Khormaksar Airfield. To beef up its 5,000-man army, South Arabia wants 5,000 British troops, some patrol boats and spotter planes, a couple of artillery battalions, and eight Hawker Hunter jets...
...role for a Soviet leader. All last week, during his private talks with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Russian Premier Aleksei Kosygin found himself forced to go soft on imperialism. At least that is what Soviet sources traveling with Kosygin were leaking to Western newsmen. "Actually," argued one Russian, "we are fighting Washington's battle. And we're having as much trouble restraining Nasser as you used to have restraining Chiang Kai-shek...
Crux of the matter is Nasser's burning desire to mount a military offensive against Saudi Arabia, which has been aiding the Yemen Royalists in their fight against Nasser-backed Hassan al-Amri, the would-be dictator of Yemen. Russians in the Premier's entourage let it be known that Kosygin is willing enough to aid Nasser with arms and equipment in the Yemen war, but fears that a widening of the conflict to Saudi Arabia would bring about a "hot war" confrontation in the Middle East that neither Russia nor the U.S. wants. Hence, the Russians said...
...Nasser must have been disappointed as well by Kosygin's response to the Egyptian food problem. Kosygin counseled Nasser not to risk a stoppage of the U.S. Food for Peace program-Washington is still sitting tight on this year's $150 million worth of grain-because Russia simply cannot afford to pick up the grocery bill. As a result, the joint Russo-Egyptian communiqué issued at the end of Kosygin's eight-day trip was notably mild in its criticism of U.S. activities...
Died. Kamel Mrowa, 54, U.S. missionary-educated Lebanese publisher whose daily Al-Hayat (circ. 22,000) ranks as the leading voice of responsible Arab nationalism, scorning Nasser's adventurous leftist socialism; of gunshot wounds inflicted by a pro-Nasser bank messenger; in Beirut...