Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gaddafi is a dedicated pan-Arab in the Nasser tradition, but where Nasser swayed the Arab masses with his personality, Gaddafi supplies cash. Libya's annual oil income is $2.4 billion; the money comes in almost faster than Gaddafi can spend it, but no one can accuse him of not trying. In impulsive, mysterious ways, Gaddafi hands it out to some of the political visitors who are understandably streaming into the Libyan capital nowadays...
Overseas, his punshots have gone wilder. While in Cairo before going on to Russia last year, he asked to visit the mosque containing Nasser's burial place. "After all," he said, "we're on our way to Mosque-Cow, aren't we?" At the tomb, when a member of his party removed his shoes according to Islamic custom and revealed a hole in his sock, Muskie shrugged: "We're in a holy place, aren't we?" When he learned that the Russians were being difficult and might not issue visas to his press entourage...
...first time since he inherited Gamal Abdel Nasser's mantle as President of Egypt and leader of the Arab world, Anwar Sadat last week was subjected to massive public criticism by his fellow countrymen. At the vast (64,000 enrollment) University of Cairo, more than 6,000 angry undergraduates jammed into the school's auditorium, hoisted placards reading WE MUST FIGHT, and vowed to carry on the protest until Sadat showed up to answer their questions about foreign policy-particularly, the course of the war with Israel...
...between his bad luck and that of his predecessor ("May God rest his soul") in 1967. A month after the end of the Six-Day War, said Sadat, an Israeli armored brigade was sighted edging up to the Suez Canal in what looked like an attempt to cross it. Nasser ordered Egyptian bombers to crush the supposed attack. "Unfortunately," Sadat explained, "they were unable to spot their targets because of fog that had gathered over the whole area. The fog spoiled everything...
...speech, Sadat had pushed aside such eminent old guardsmen as Premier Mahmoud Fawzi, 71, who took the honorific post of vice president, and Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad, 55, who was named a foreign affairs adviser. The incoming Cabinet is composed of bright young technocrats with few ties back to Nasser and little political strength of their own. "Some are pro-this and some are pro-that," said an Israeli scrutinizing the list of new appointees. "The only thing that makes them alike is that they are all pro-Sadat...