Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know," Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser mused during an Arab meeting in Cairo shortly before his death last year, "I rather like Gaddafi. He reminds me of myself when I was that age." Not even the young Nasser, however, was a hell raiser to compare with Muammar Gaddafi, who at 28 is leader of the revolutionary council that rules oil-rich Libya. Born in a nomad's tent, schooled in the army, thrust to power in a coup that overthrew Libya's aging King Idris two years ago, Gaddafi stands unchallenged as the enfant terrible of Arab...
Arabs applauded after the Libyan coup when Gaddafi expelled 25,000 Italian coloni, ousted U.S. and British military forces, converted the Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to the Mosque of Gamal Abdel Nasser (with Gaddafi's picture plastered on the crucifix), nationalized foreign banks, and squeezed higher royalties out of 36 foreign oil companies...
More and more, Gaddafi has tended to ignore the plight of impoverished Libyans. His dual preoccupations are the destruction of Israel and, through lavish outlays of his country's oil money, making himself Nasser's successor as the leader of Pan-Arabism. He pays a $55 million annual subsidy to Egypt and, before Hussein cracked down on the fedayeen, he gave funds to Jordan as well, for the fight against Israel. Last fall, after General Hafez Assad seized power in Syria, Gaddafi insolently flew into Damascus to look him over. Apparently Gaddafi approved; he left Assad...
...Both Nasser and Algeria's Houari Boumedienne have had the unsettling experience of learning that a plane with Gaddafi aboard was buzzing their capitals without their having the faintest notion of why he had come. During Morocco's recent abortive coup, he offered King Hassan's enemies military aid before he even knew what was happening or who the rebels were. Then came last week's capture of a BOAC jet and the kidnaping of two of its Sudanese passengers. Gaddafi is young, dedicated, naive and, some say, irrational as well. He certainly is as impetuous...
...overnight guest in his home in the village of Majdal Shams. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan once dined with Kanj in the village. Kanj was so intent on maintaining good relations with Israel that when younger members of the community held a memorial march for Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser last autumn, the sheik publicly chastised them...