Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Egypt seems amenable to the talks largely because Sadat's new government is not nearly as anxious as the late Gamal Abdel Nasser to spearhead the causes of the Arab world. Though the Cairo government is heavily mortgaged to Moscow for weapons. Sadat is anxious to spend money on such pressing domestic needs as water systems and Cairo's creaking mass transit. Last week he issued a presidential order ending the policy of "sequestration," under which Nasser's socialist government a decade ago began seizing lucrative private properties from thousands of Egyptians and foreigners...
Abroad, the death of Charles de Gaulle ended the era of great wartime leaders. The death of Egypt's Nasser seemed of more immediate importance; Golda Meir lost her worthiest antagonist, her only equal in the Arab world. It is still open to question whether Nasser's heirs will be strong enough not simply to make peace but to make it stick. Apart from Viet Nam, the Middle East preoccupied U.S. attention as Russia expanded its influence by installing missiles along the Suez Canal...
...cease-fire between Israel and Egypt had hardly taken effect last August before both sides were using the lull to prepare for war. Israel's Bar-Lev Line, along the Suez Canal's east bank, was extended and impressively hardened. Across the canal, the late Gamal Abdel Nasser rushed so many Soviet-built missiles forward that, as a Western diplomat in Cairo cracked last week, "even if the Russians wanted to move more in, they probably couldn't find a place to put them...
...timetable for withdrawal." But diplomats in Cairo considered Sadat's statement, made during a visit to troops along the canal, to be more a matter of morale building than a real condition for the talks. More and more, Sadat's policy is emerging as an extension of Nasser's. In Cairo's daily Al Ahram last week, Editor Hassanein Heikal, a Nasser confidant, wrote that Egypt's former President had become convinced before his death that a military solution of the Middle East situation could not succeed. According to Heikal, Nasser believed that Egypt could...
...idea of a coup was remote during the 18-year reign of Gamal Abdel Nasser. But Sadat enjoys vastly less popular support than did Nasser. Therefore Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, who hurried to Cairo for Nasser's funeral with his Deputy Defense Minister in tow, ordered a number of Russian moves to shore up Sadat. A new Russian military command was established, and Soviet "advisers" serving with the Egyptian army were directed to develop loyal cadres of Egyptians, who would take over-and report to the Russians-in the event that the Egyptian command structure was punctured...