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...Premier Chou En-lai arrived. He had flown to Rumania for the funeral of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, stopped at Tirana, capital of Albania, Peking's most distant and tiniest ally, and jetted on to Algeria and Egypt where he reportedly urged Ahmed ben Bella and Gamal Abdel Nasser not to invite Russia to the second Bandung-style conference of Afro-Asian nations scheduled for June in Algiers. Chou's point: despite its possession of Siberia, Russia is essentially a European country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: The Busy Travelers | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...death. As ex-King of Egypt, he died in exile in Rome, just as ex-King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, died in exile in Alexandria. Also ironic was the fact that in the week of Farouk's death, the man who had helped overthrow him, Gamal Abdel Nasser, was almost unanimously re-elected President of Egypt, obtaining an incredible 99.999% of the 6,950,000 votes cast. If the results were to be believed, only 65 hardy souls voted against Nasser, while 489 ballots were defaced and therefore held invalid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: A Tale of Two Autocrats | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...Factory Hysteria." As the election returns might suggest, Nasser has been every bit as autocratic as Farouk ever was. Only one name was on last week's ballots, and only one name appeared in the screaming headlines of the government-controlled press, all of them demanding Nasser's "re-election." To the Egyptian masses, who tend to be docile people, these political shortcomings are less important than the economic results that Nasser has achieved. Industrial production has climbed from $753.6 million in 1952 to an estimated $2.1 billion this year. Exports have more than quadrupled, and the output...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: A Tale of Two Autocrats | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...such statistics cannot conceal Nasser's failure in his long campaign to achieve Arab unity, or in his military campaign in Yemen that ties down some 50,000 Egyptian troops. His pell-mell "factory hysteria" resulted in a muddle of mismanagement and high costs. A Fiat assembly plant near Cairo employs 5,000 workers but turns out only 15 cars a day due to material shortages. The Helwan iron and steel complex produces rails that were turned down as inferior by Egyptian national railways and were finally accepted only on Nasser's insistence. At year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: A Tale of Two Autocrats | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...break diplomatic ties with West Germany. Ten Arab nations agreed to withdraw ambassadors from Bonn, but Morocco, Tunisia and Libya (which annually sells Bonn 35% of its oil output, or $245 million worth) refused to go even that far. Most of the foreign ministers were frankly appalled at Nasser's call for recognition of East Germany and an economic boycott of West German goods. "If Nasser expects us to do all that in the cause of Arab unity," growled one, "he has rocks in his head." What was emerging among the majority of Arab nations was a "no Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: A Call for Wise Hearts | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

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