Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat has been forced to shake a fist from time to time or seduce Egyptians with the heady vision of confrontation and victory because he lacks the personal magnetism with which his predecessor, Abdel Nasser, captured the Arab world. Sadat is basically an uncomplicated person who enjoys a sedate family life with wife Gehan and their children. He is a devout Moslem to the point that his forehead bears the mark caused by a lifetime of touching the head to floor to pray...
...from being stirred by Sadat's ringing oratory most Egyptians were unmoved. After all, in the three years since Sadat assumed the presidency following the sudden death of Gamal Abdel Nasser, he had constantly called for war to avenge the crushing defeat that Egypt suffered in the Six-Day War. Sadat said that 1971 would be "the year of decision," but it ended indecisively. Last year the President again warned Egyptians to prepare themselves for "the inevitable battle." It did not come...
...spring of 1954 was a memorable season. After seven years of fighting, the French were ready to pull out of Viet Nam. Gamal Abdel Nasser took over as Premier of Egypt. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. And on an April afternoon when the Army-McCarthy hearings were dominating network television, a slender black teen-ager from Mobile, Ala., named Henry Louis Aaron hit his first major league home...
...dignitaries had not come to Algiers for combat, however. They were there to attend the fourth Summit Conference of Non-Aligned Countries, a loose-knit organization formed in 1961 during the heat of the cold war by Tito, Egypt's Gamal Nasser and India's Jawaharlal Nehru. Then, the foremost aim of the conference had been to seek means by which the smaller and poorer nations of the world could protect themselves from political and economic encroachment by the superpowers...
...Economic Theme. Nasser and Nehru are both gone now, and the international climate has changed as well. One major question facing the leaders in Algiers: Do détente and the relaxation of tensions among the big powers invalidate the need for a policy of nonalignment? Or does détente serve to reinforce the status quo-that is, a world of a few strong nations and many weak ones-and hence make the need for a coordinated policy all the more imperative? Apparently hoping to offset such a conclusion. Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev sent a message to Boumedienne...