Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jetted about the Middle East last week, it looked as if Gamal Abdel Nasser were going acourtin' once more. Extending a three-day Libyan visit to six days, he drew crowds of 40,000 in Tripoli, 65,000 in Benghazi. He further delighted Libyans by appearing as a witness at the wedding of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, 27, the nation's revolutionary leader, to Fathia Khaled, daughter of an army officer. In Khartoum, he joined Major General Jaafar Numeiry, Sudan's boss since an army coup last year, in celebrating the country's 14th anniversary of independence...
Actually, Nasser's courtship was a relatively cautious affair. Badly burned by Egypt's previous attempts at unions with the mercurial states of Syria and Iraq, he was plainly leary of any binding marriage with either Libya or the Sudan. Even if these new "West of Suez" alliances do not presage formal political ties, however, they set the stage for close military and economic cooperation with Libya and the Sudan. On top of that, having lost considerable prestige at the recent Arab summit in Rabat, Nasser was seeking to recoup it amidst the cheering Libyans and Sudanese...
Divided Leaque. Nasser had flown into Rabat hoping to persuade the 13 other Arab League states to back his proposal for total military mobilization against Israel. He left with a grudging, divided vote of support. Worse, the aura of unity that had prevailed among the Arab states ever since the shattering Six-Day War of 1967 was dispelled...
...Jewish organizations called on Rogers, and a heated two-hour meeting ensued. They counterpointed another group-including Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller and other businessmen with substantial Middle East interests-that had been closeted earlier last month with Richard Nixon. Rockefeller was fresh from a meeting with Nasser, and he and the others warned of the dangers that a one-sided Middle East policy could cause. Washington, in fact, may not be altogether unhappy over the ferocity of Israel's objections. The louder the complaints, the more evenhanded the policy may appear to suspicious Arabs...
...Morocco's Rabat Hilton. The divisive agenda item was an Egyptian proposal that the other twelve members of the conference assist Egypt and Jordan by playing a greater part in the war against Israel. "I want to know whether you want to participate in the battle or not," Nasser demanded at the final working session. "I ask you please to tell me whether you want to fight." Earlier Egypt's Defense Minister, General Mohammed Fawzi, had unveiled a "mobilization plan" proposing that...