Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...General Command, headed by Ahmed Jebreel, a 35-year-old former army officer, quickly claimed credit for the attack. The same group also boasted three months ago of engineering the mid-air explosion of an Israel-bound Swissair jet in which 47 died. Jebreel wired Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser last week that the bus attack was revenge for the Israeli air raid at Bahr el Bakr. But Al-Fatah, largest of the Arab commando organizations, criticized the guerrilla group, and declared that its own policy prohibited deliberate attacks on civilians...
...aircraft have avoided the direct combat area over Suez, the Israelis branded the Russian role as "alarming." Said Jerusalem: "The Soviet decision to dispatch what are to all intents and purposes regular units of the Soviet air force against Israel is without precedent and parallel." Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser could hardly be expected to see it that way. At a May Day rally near Cairo, he ridiculed the Israeli charges of Soviet involvement as "a great comedy." Declared Nasser: "The Soviet Union is not helping us launch aggression. It is helping us liberate our occupied lands...
Undoubtedly the dissent is receiving new publicity since the confrontation between the government and Dr. Nahun Goldmann, who was allegedly contacted by Nasser to hold talks, which the government refused because of Goldmann's political views. This event will tend to polarize and will undoubtedly force the government to publicly justify-if not modify-its policy. But there is no way to insure that this will happen...
...chief U.S. Middle East negotiator 15 months ago, was intended to improve relations between the U.S. and the Arabs and to probe for peace possibilities. But the demonstrations did nothing to improve relations, and Sisco found his hosts generally pessimistic about peace. He and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser spent nearly two hours together at Nasser's Manshiet al Bakri residence near the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis. Nasser concurred that a political solution was necessary in the Middle East but he was obviously disappointed that the U.S. official had come bearing no new proposals...
...vivid and clear. The cast performs with tender gravity, and Jacqueline Brookes, in particular, brings affecting dignity to the role of King Xerxes' mother, as does J.A. Preston as the bearer of unbearable news. Underscoring the dialogue like a chorus of tears is the santur music of Composer Nasser Rastegar-Nejad. If someone had commissioned a great poet-playwright to write a drama for a Moratorium Day, this would...