Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials are candidly baffled by the Soviet conduct in the past two months, especially in the Middle East. Moscow not only advanced its missiles in Egypt, but even after all of the fuss that created, it is still strengthening Nasser's air defenses in violation of the agreement, knowing full well that U.S. and Israeli intelligence detect every move. "This is deliberate?it is not clandestine," observes one Soviet expert in the U.S. Kremlin strategy raises all the old doubts about Moscow's intentions of abiding by any pact it enters...
...point during the civil war, made moves to join on the side of the fedayeen. Libya also cut off its annual $25.2 million subsidy to Jordan and so did Kuwait, which was contributing $39.2 million. Even Hussein's lukewarm friends, like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, can no longer be counted on for support. After Guerrilla Chieftain Arafat skipped out of Jordan and met with Nasser in Cairo to brief him on the battle, Egypt's President fired off a scathing protest accusing Hussein of lying, breaking promises and perpetrating "a horrible massacre...
...most of its principals were subsequently assassinated or forced out of office. The discouraging precedent of that initial summit has been echoed virtually every time Arab leaders have gathered to wrestle with the Palestinian problem. The meeting called in Cairo last week by Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser was no better-and perhaps worse. The savage civil strife in Jordan polarized Arab leaders as never before. Not once, in fact, were delegates from all of the ten Arab states represented in Cairo able to sit down together, underscoring the Arabs' difficulty in papering over their disagreements...
Three Arab nations boycotted Nasser's summit outright: Morocco, Algeria and Iraq. Morocco's King Hassan probably stayed away simply to avoid entanglement in a faraway fight. The other two did so out of sympathy with the guerrillas. Libya's youthful new strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who has remained outwardly loyal to Nasser, attended the conference-but only after siding strongly with the Palestinians and offering to send Libyan troops into the fight on the commandos' side. Nothing ever came of that, but there is speculation that Gaddafi, who came to power last year...
Sitting Idle. Nasser's most trustworthy allies at the summit were Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, Lebanon's new President, Suleiman Franjieh, and Sudan's strongman, Major General Jaafar Numeiry, who served as mediator between the Cairo conferees and the antagonists in Jordan. It was the goal of Nasser to stop the fighting before either side achieved victory. Nasser still needs as much of a Palestinian "constituency," as one Egyptian official put it, as he can salvage; but he also would like to keep Hussein, his primary link to the West...