Word: nasserism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nature of the U.S. proposals, were kept closely guarded. De Gaulle, probably with secret delight, since it so suited his own habitual taste for melodrama, solemnly informed his Cabinet that at Johnson's request he could tell them nothing of his talks with Goldberg. Harriman saw Tito, then Nasser, and thinly tried to justify his two days in Cairo as an effort to get Egypt to look into the welfare of U.S. prisoners of war in North Viet Nam. He did indeed touch on that, but on much more as well, as proved by his odyssey eastward through Teheran...
Egypt's Nasser, no notable supporter of the U.S. in Viet Nam, offered his good offices in the search for a settlement, and immediately ordered Egyptian diplomats to contact Hanoi. His enthusiasm stems in part, no doubt, from a desire to enhance his own image as an international statesman. But the government press went a bit beyond mere self-serving. "Scorn and skepticism in the Communist camp notwithstanding," noted the Egyptian Gazette, "no head of state would send special envoys to a dozen world capitals, as President Johnson has done, if he had no intention of suiting his actions...
Helicopters dropped thousands of balloons bearing the image of Nasser, while tanks and self-propelled artillery thundered past the reviewing stand. It was Victory Day in Port Said last week -the ninth anniversary of Egypt's little Suez war with France, Britain and Israel. After parade's end, the crowd waited expectantly to hear whether President Gamal Abdel Nasser could top his performance of a year ago, when he pounded the lectern for the benefit of visiting Soviet Bigwig Aleksandr Shelepin and told the U.S. to go "drink the sea"-the Arab equivalent of "Go jump...
...Nasser had a surprise in store. Not once last week did he curse his enemies in the Arab world. And not once in his 21-hour speech did he bait the West. Moreover, he made only a perfunctory reference to "liberating" Palestine. Instead, he talked calmly and sensibly about Egypt's economic problems. The country has run up a foreign debt of nearly $3 billion, and the gap between exports and imports has widened to a record $500 million for 1965. "We are facing difficulties," Nasser conceded. "We must all work harder and make sacrifices. I have no magic...
Show of Force. Lacking a magic button to push, Nasser has done the next best thing. The new Premier whom he appointed last September to replace left-leaning Ali Sabry has begun a reform of Egypt's stagnant economy, and Nasser has so far given him full support. To increase government revenue, Premier Zakaria Mohieddin has sharply raised Egypt's inadequate personal income tax and has added a "defense tax" on all sales to help defray military costs. He has jacked up tariffs on nonessential imports to save foreign exchange. He has also hiked the cost of luxury...