Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation can escape the burden of history. For Egypt this includes the burden of Nasser's terrible act of shattering a condition of relative stability eight years ago. The traumatic effects are still at work in Israel's mind. The peace map must be constructed with precision and care so as to avoid the vulnerabilities of May 1967. This means negotiation. When does Sadat propose to look an Israeli leader in the face and reach a common human understanding...
...Cities. All of this adds up to a desperate need for peace on Egypt's part so that the country can address its overwhelming problems. Impressed by Sadat's openness to investment from abroad, foreign investors who were put off by Nasser's restrictive Arab socialism are reportedly willing to spend as much as $3 billion on Egyptian development projects. But these are long-term investments, and for the time being the country is earmarking 25% of its G.N.P. each year for military preparedness...
Fall Guy. Still, Sadat's principal power base is not the army but Egypt's affluent landowners and its urban upper-middle class; though those groups total fewer than 2 million people, or one-twentieth of the population, they dominate the country. When Sadat was Vice President, Nasser mocked him as "old Goha," after a legendary fall guy in Egyptian folk humor. He insisted that "Sadat's greatest ambition is to own a big automobile and have the government pay for the gasoline." But on his own, old Goha turned out to be perhaps a shrewder politician...
...Sadat is as comfortable with local mayors as he is with sophisticated city dwellers. In fact, Sadat functions as if Egypt were one big Mit Abu el Kom and he the great 'umda. Sadat has pretty much neutralized the once-mighty Arab Socialist Union, which Nasser established as Egypt's only political party. He uses the A.S.U. only as a sounding board of grass roots opinion; membership is no longer mandatory for representatives sitting in the People's Assembly, Egypt's parliament, and Sadat has allowed small, informal party groupings to develop. Although the assembly debates...
...peace situation. "If it didn't exist, they would have to invent it." Certainly Moscow has made diplomatic, political and military headway in the Middle East by encouraging unsettled conditions between Israel and the Arab countries. Ever since the U.S. rebuffed Egypt's President Nasser by refusing to sell him weapons in 1955 and, a year later, withdrawing financial aid to build the Aswan High Dam, mammoth development projects and sophisticated Soviet weapons have flowed freely into the Arab world...