Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certainly a bad week for Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. He lost a trusted friend and ally in the helicopter death of Iraq's President Abdul Salam Aref (see MILESTONES). In Yemen, a pro-Nasser Republican leader was shot down by an assassin. But Nasser's biggest trouble occurred right at home, and it was caused by the army, which is normally considered the strongest supporter of his regime. The government announced the arrest of 20 top officers on charges of plotting a coup. The word in Cairo was variously that the officers were at loggerheads...
...case, there was no doubt about the military's rising discontent over Nasser's disastrous adventure in Yemen. Egypt has committed 70,000 troops to the Republican cause at a cost of $500,000 a day, a drain its sick economy can ill afford. Casualties have been high: an estimated 600 Egyptian soldiers were wounded last month. Even more demoralizing are the brutalities of the Saudi-supported Yemeni Royalists, who like to send captured Egyptian soldiers back to their camps with their ears and noses chopped off. For all its sacrifices in Yemen, Egypt still controls less than...
...escaped death five times (falling off a cliff, a severe case of typhoid, a plane crash, two assassination attempts), and the experiences have brought Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi a good deal closer to Allah, says a friend. In any case, the Shah does not like Gamal Abdel Nasser's frequent attacks calling him an infidel. So to emphasize his pride in being a good Moslem, the Iranian ruler ordered the printing of a new edition of the Koran at his own expense ($250,000 so far). Using a previously unreproduced 16th century version by Calligrapher Ahmed Neirizi, 40 experts...
...Nkrumah had made chimps of his soldiers too long, and they had lots of bones to pick. The animals, they decided, were fair game. So while Nkrumah sat in Conakry, turning himself into a Guinea pig and pondering whether he should pack his trunk and join his friend Nasser at his Nile perch, the boared soldiers decided what they needed was some good gnus. One night when they were all croc-ed, they turned the zoo into Nkrumah's Bar & Gorilla...
...horrendous economic problems, and their popularity is bound to wear off as the man in the marketplace discovers that he is not going to rise from poverty overnight. One veteran revolutionary is already predicting failure. "These African military coups will not work," said Egypt's Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser last week. "African military men have no political experience, and their economies are too poor to meet the expectations of the people. They cannot last...