Word: nasserism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Perhaps the only really angry men around are students and some army officers. After last week's air raid, knots of students gathered on street corners to chant "Strike, strike!" They were demanding that President Gamal Abdel Nasser attack Israel. As for the army officers, they remember all too well the humiliation of 1967 and are eager to strike back. War Minister Mohammed Fawzi has whetted the appetites of the army by calling 1970 "the year of liberation...
Certainly, Israeli strategists would be delighted if Nasser were to be toppled as a result of their war of nerves. Though no alternative to Nasser is in sight, proponents of the present strategy argue that in any case the strikes have delayed a new round of full-scale fighting by at least five years. Nasser has admitted that he is in no position to liberate the Sinai Peninsula at present. Israeli losses from shelling on the Suez have plummeted from a monthly peak of 30 killed and 76 wounded in July to 5 killed and 20 wounded last month...
Word of Mouth. While Nasser may be able to get away with news distortion in Egypt, the Israeli government dares not deceive its citizens. A Western diplomat in Tel Aviv says: "Here the object is to keep everyone on edge all the time. These people have to be ready to pick up their guns and run for the front whenever the phone rings, day or night. The price the government pays is that it must present the facts." But sometimes it delays formal announcements, to the annoyance of the foreign press. Israel also censors the copy of foreign newsmen, although...
...example is the mighty Aswan High Dam project, built on the Upper Nile River with Soviet aid. When an international team of ecologists studied the effects of the dam, they were shocked. For one thing, waterweeds are clogging the shoreline of Lake Nasser behind the dam. The weeds may well speed evaporation through transpiration to the point where the lake lacks enough water to drive the gigantic generators...
...also stopped the flow of silt down the Nile, which in the past offset the natural erosion of the land from the Nile delta. As a result, downstream erosion may wash away as much productive farm land as is opened up by new irrigation systems around Lake Nasser. Without the nutrient-rich silt reaching the Mediterranean, the Egyptian sardine catch declined from 18,000 tons in 1965 to 500 tons in 1968. As a final penalty, irrigation projects on the delta plain have allowed a moisture-loving snail to thrive. Since it carries schistosomiasis, most of the delta people have...