Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fortunately, Montgomery's victory at EI-Alamein dashed Hitler's, Nasser's and Sadat's hopes. This is the man with whom Israel must make peace...
First, U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers, exploring the possibility of reopening the Suez Canal as part of an interim settlement between Egypt and Israel, was received with great cordiality by President Anwar Sadat. Next, Sadat established himself as Gamal Abdel Nasser's true heir by nipping a plot against him and staging a swift, authoritative series of arrests and dismissals that reached deep into the government and army...
Despite Sadat's concern about assassins, his Egypt so far is a more relaxed place than Nasser's ever was. Sadat has cast himself as the people's champion, promising more personal freedom, attention to domestic ills, and an easing of police-state repression. As an earnest of that intent, the government eased press censorship and announced it was disconnecting the taps on no fewer than 11,000 telephones...
Still, strong doubts are beginning to disturb the cognoscenti, who worry that Sadat will become a Nasser-like strongman. It is an unexpected role. Before Sadat assumed the top office, his chief accomplishment was surviving for 18 years in Nasser's coterie, though he was banished to his native Delta village for five weeks only last summer for using government powers to take over a luxurious villa that his wife coveted. Cairo skeptics suggest that his accession to power merely portends a different sort of police state. "Up till now, the leftist-controlled intelligence tapped the telephones...
...Desperate, General Fawzi telephoned a unit commander at a nearby base, who-like Shazli-said he would join in the coup, but informed Sadat instead. Within an hour, Fawzi, Sharaf and the others who resigned were under house arrest, along with Sabry. One survivor of the whole affair was Nasser's son-in-law, Ashraf Marwan, who used to work for Sharaf. Marwan found Sharaf's secretary taking secret papers from the office, trailed him, flattened him in a fistfight, grabbed the papers, and took them to Sadat. Marwan is now the Presidential Secretary for Information...