Word: nasserism
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...about Israel's coming defeat, has a new job. She is directing a campaign to collect gold, jewelry and stashed-away cash to help Egypt's battered economy. If her daily pleadings have not convinced the Egyptians of the costliness of their rout by Israel, Gamal Abdel Nasser has. Last week he promised his people "a real, cruel and difficult struggle ahead." And "economic struggle," he told the fellahin, "means economic sacrifice. We must eliminate all privileges...
Shortly thereafter, Nasser's socialist regime produced a new emergency budget that showed he was not kidding. It imposed higher taxes on the middle and upper classes, raised workers' compulsory monthly savings by 50%, reduced overtime pay, cut the sugar ration by a third, and curtailed practically all major industrial programs. Only military expenditures were increased, by $140 million to an estimated $1 billion, exclusive of some of the hidden barter arrangements with the Soviet bloc. Nasser also increased the price of beer (by 50 a bottle), cigarettes (50 a pack), long-distance bus and railroad fares...
...Nasser's propaganda machine is preparing the Egyptians for even worse to come. The radio, TV and press are stressing as an example of national sacrifice the hardships of the British during World War II, when each person got only one egg a week. Egyptians are now eating macaroni instead of rice, which is being exported to earn cash. The cotton crop is again badly infested by leaf worm, but because there is not enough money to buy insecticide, youngsters have been sent into the fields to pick the worm off the plants by hand. The tourist tide...
...cautious about their involvement with the Arabs. They gave a bear hug to Algeria's Houari Boumediene when he visited Moscow last week-but little else. They were aware that Boumediene is trying to stake a claim to leadership of the Arab left, but they made plain that Nasser is still their No. 1 man in the Middle East; after all, they have already replaced 200 of his 350 destroyed planes. Boumediene went to Moscow straight from Cairo, where five of the more militant and left-leaning Arab chiefs rattled threats against Israel, called for a "second round...
Among such irrational hawks as Aref and Boumediene, Nasser sounded almost like a dove. He counseled against a renewal of fighting with Israel, the skirmishing at Suez notwithstanding, until the Arabs were rearmed and united-a condition that is not imminent. Nasser realizes, however, that he cannot coo too loudly without running the danger of being brushed aside as leader of the Arab left by someone like Boumediene. Even the most hawkish leader at the Cairo conference must have known deep down a horrifying thing: that if full-scale fighting broke out again, the Israeli army could undoubtedly occupy Cairo...