Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Rogers hove into view last week, the first Secretary of State to pay calls in the area since John Foster Dulles in 1953. In visiting Egypt, he also became the first Secretary of State to call on a nation with which the U.S. has no formal diplomatic relations; Nasser severed them in 1967. In Cairo, Rogers spent nearly seven hours talking with Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad and Premier Mahmoud Fawzi. Afterward, he spent an hour re laxing at the palm-fringed pool of the Nile Hilton Hotel. Refreshed by a night time visit to the Sphinx and the Pyramids...
That leaves the Egyptians. As a Western diplomat in Cairo said recently: "No one really knows what the Egyptian army is thinking. They were fueled with the rhetoric of Nasser, and doubtless, feel a longing for that kind of sustenance. They were eternally frustrated by a policy of 'no war, no peace,' and the war of attrition hardly seemed like an answer. Sadat's diplomacy for peace is therefore appealing, provided it produces results. But there surely is a point down the road when an intolerable moment will arrive. It could then be that the pressure would bear down hard...
...Cadet Nasser...
...family moved to Cairo's Kubri al Quba section. Finally he secured an appointment to the military academy at Abbasiyah, which had just begun to accept sons of the lower classes as well as the aristocratic boys it traditionally favored. Sadat quickly became friends with Cadet Gamal Abdel Nasser, his classmate. "We were young men full of hope," wrote Sadat later in his Revolt on the Nile. "We were brothers-in-arms, united in friendship and common detestation of the existing order of things. Egypt was a sick country...
...Fanatically anti-British, the young officer plotted with the Germans. When he was caught, he was cashiered from the army and spent more than two years in prison for spying. While there he learned to read and speak English and German and read French and Persian. After the war, Nasser helped him get his commission back...