Word: nasserism
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Change of Mind. The money is Russia's assessed share of the cost of maintaining U.N. peace-keeping forces in Suez and the Congo. Russia supported the original U.N. action in both cases, but later changed its mind-to give Nasser a free hand in the Suez area, and to aid Red stooges in the Congo after Leftist Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. Moscow now claims the assessments are illegal, and despite the unanimous verdict of the International Court of Justice that they are binding, the Kremlin has refused to pay its share since early 1962. Washington threatens to open...
Sensible Heat. Last September Feisal attended the Alexandria conference of Arab nations and held a series of private meetings with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser to patch up the dispute between their two countries over Yemen's civil war-which last week finally headed for an armistice. Back home, Feisal was depressed to find that King Saud and his sons had been up to their old tricks. Finally, Feisal decided to break his long-kept oath in favor of the national interest. He ordered the national council convened, and while the fatwa was being drawn up, Feisal...
Students at Hebrew University are mostly Israelis solemnly intent on going into government or the professions. But one in every ten is an "oriental" Jew from the Middle East, North Africa or Asia; 200 others are Arabs living in Israel, some of them fervently pro-Nasser. The largest foreign contingent is 250 students from the U.S., and 100 others come from black African nations. Students are supposed to read English, but most teaching is in Hebrew...
Many of the nations represented at the congress strongly opposed Tshombe's attendance. Three leaders, Nkrumah of Ghana, Ben Bella of Algeria and Hassan II of Morocco, had refused in July to sit with Tshombe at a meeting of the Organization of African Unity. On October 4, Nasser asked Kasavubu, President of the Congo, to come himself and leave Tshombe home. At the congress' opening session, Nasser made a thinly veiled reference to Tshombe's policies in the Congo when he said, "a trade in mercenaries is being practiced without honor and without shame" for the sake of neocolonialism...
...Nasser referred to the white South African and Rhodesian mercenaries whom Tshombe has hired to lead his government's troops against the rebels who have taken control of much of the northern and northeastern Congo. Rhodesia and South Africa both maintain an internal policy of white supremacy. Both nations enjoy the frank hostility of most African countries, and Tshombe's hiring soldiers from them has not enhanced his popularity with his African neighbors...