Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat, among other things, is attempting to come to grips with the kinds of domestic problems that Nasser shunted aside as he pursued his costly war with Israel and his grandiose visions of Pan-Arab unity. Egypt last week reached a population of 34 million (early this year, Israel proudly welcomed its three-millionth citizen). At present, Egyptian babies are being born at the rate of one every 40 seconds. Sadat is trying to meet some of the inevitable problems that this overbreeding creates, particularly in a nation where much of the population is crowded into a narrow ribbon...
...tapped frequently, and mail and cables censored in Egypt. But there have been some notable relaxations. The secret police are far less in evidence now. Following record crops last year, consumer goods are more readily available and some food prices have been forced down. The cruel sequestration laws that Nasser invoked to punish the middle class for opposing him have been eased, and many Egyptians are reclaiming seized property. Faced by a shortage of efficient managers, Sadat is seeking to create a class of executives and to give them a sense of belonging...
Open criticism is being allowed again, and there have been some pointed attacks on the Pan-Arabism that flourished under Nasser and all but obliterated millenniums of Egyptian history. Wrote Literary Editor Louis Awad of Cairo's Al Ahram: "If you search in the six reading books taught from Grade 1 to Grade 6 in Egyptian schools, you do not come across the name Egypt even once. You only discover stupid poems that begin, I am an Arab. My father is Arab. My brother is Arab. Long live the Arabs.' " So pronounced is the "Egypt first" mood, that the Cairo...
...running the country, they were dissipated last week when the President in a bold stroke purged Ali Sabry, 50, one of his two Vice Presidents and his closest competitor for power. Sabry has been resentful from the first that it was Sadat, not he, who won the presidency after Nasser succumbed to a massive coronary thrombosis. After some months of sniping, he decided to challenge Sadat head-on over the proposed federation of Egypt, Syria and Libya. The union has been coolly received by Egyptians, who recall how a similar federation with Syria dissolved rancorously a decade ago. Sadat...
After the humiliation of the Six-Day War of 1967, Nasser mixed bluster and bullets in his efforts to regain Sinai and the Gaza Strip from Israel. He succeeded only in accumulating 20,000 casualties in his fruitless "war of attrition," and was more than glad to negotiate a ceasefire. Sadat, with a calm and moderate approach and the subtlety of a bazaar merchant, has managed in four months to put Israel on the diplomatic defensive. First, in a major shift in Arab policy, he announced his willingness to recognize Israel's right to exist in return for the restoration...