Word: nasserism
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...Institute for Strategic Studies points out that there are more military men acting as political leaders than at any time in the 20th century." He cites Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan, Burma's Ne Win Thai land's Thanom Kittikachorn, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Algeria s Houan Boumedienne, Saigon's Nguyen Cao Ky, France's Charles de Gaulle and such nonprofessional but militaristic figures as Cuba's Fidel Castro and Indonesia's Sukarno...
...Republic of the Congo" collapsed before advancing government columns in March, its leaders disappeared in headlong flight across the Sudanese border-President Christophe Gbenye in the Rolls-Royce he had expropriated along the way. Most of them ended up in Cairo, where under the friendly eye of Nasser and with money scrounged from Communist embassies, they hoped to plot their triumphant return. It didn't quite work out that way, for soon they were spending most of their time plotting against each other...
Quintet Groups. Led by Said Ramadan, an exiled and devout Egyptian editor (he kneels for his daily prayers even when aboard an airliner), the brotherhood has been trying to over throw Cairo governments since the early days of King Farouk. Nasser tried to crush it out after one of its members fired eight shots at him during a mass rally in Alexandria in 1954, but despite the execution of six of the brothers and the imprisonment of thousands of others, the organization survived. Establishing headquarters in Geneva, it was soon distributing an anti-Nasser magazine throughout the Arab world, smuggling...
...years Gamal Abdel Nasser has been fomenting all manner of uprisings, internal strife and coups d'état through out Africa and the Middle East. Last week it became clear that he had suffered a dose of his own medicine- and nearly choked on it. Spread across Cairo's government-controlled papers was news of an incredible plot to assassinate Nasser and most of his top aides, blow up the nation's major power plants and communications centers, and unleash a reign of terror that would sweep out his regime and install an entirely different...
...July during the regime's 13th anniversary celebrations. It seemed thorough in every detail. Hussein Tawfic, a veteran terrorist who had successfully rubbed out one of King Farouk's finance ministers, was put in command of a select group assigned to blow up Nasser in his motorcade. If he failed, other brothers were ready to blast Nasser off his presidential train somewhere between Cairo and Alexandria, and still others were prepared to shoot him on the way to his home in the suburbs of Cairo...