Word: nasserism
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...Morgue. The growing disorder of Farouk's personal life and the corruption and mismanagement of his government led to the 1952 coup d'état by a group of army officers headed by Major General Mohammed Naguib, who was later displaced by Gamal Abdel Nasser. Deposed, Farouk sailed off on his royal yacht and was said to have arrived at Naples in tears...
...officials were not exactly jumping with joy. For one thing, anti-German feelings lie bone-deep in many Israelis; for another, everyone recognized that Erhard's decision was prompted less by a desire to do right by Israel than by a need to slap back at Gamal Abdel Nasser, who has been diplomatically flirting with East Germany...
...action on 1) extending the statute of limitation to permit the arrest and trial of Nazi murderers still at large, 2) forcing the return home of German scientists working on Egypt's rocket program, and 3) resuming the shipment of arms to Israel suspended last month because of Nasser's protests...
...Birrenbach flew back to Bonn to deliver Eshkol's message, foreign ministers of 13 Arab states assembled in Cairo to decide on a common course of action against Bonn. Nasser, sensing a chance to rally the Arabs behind him, was fast off the mark with a four-point proposal of penalties, ranging from the withdrawal of Arab ambassadors from Bonn to a complete trade boycott of West Germany. "If the Jews win this battle, then the Arabs had better go bury their faces in the mud!" he cried...
Syria's shaky Baath Socialist government seems determined to outdo Nasser in its hate campaign against America. Daily, the press, radio and television vilify the U.S. for what Information Minister Mashhour Zeitoun calls "America's policy of sabotage and espionage" in Syria. Attassi, although he was nephew of one of Syria's former Presidents and a cousin of Noureddin Attassi, the second-ranking man in the present Baath government, had to be hanged as a warning to all agents of "imperialism, capitalism and Zionism." In this atmosphere of hysteria, the $100 million in aid that...