Word: nasserism
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...less significant. Behind the sudden shuffle of Middle Eastern leaders was a power struggle inside a strange new political force, the Baath (Renaissance) Party, which in little less than a year has turned from a shadowy, clandestine movement without popular support into a dynamic power challenging Gamal Abdel Nasser for leadership of the Arab world...
National Families. What precisely is Baath? Nasser seems to consider it an even greater threat than his old enemies, the Arab monarchies of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and complains: "I have read every book by or about Baath and I could understand nothing." A Western diplomat describes it as an "Arab Cosa Nostra." On the contrary, one knowledgeable observer thinks Baath "is probably ahead of its time-reformist, progressive and secular in a world of Arabs bound by tradition, religion and narrow, personal interest...
...wonder if Kennedy will turn the French against De Gaulle, the Koreans against General Park and the Egyptians against Nasser if they refuse to bow to our way of thinking...
Until the eve of negotiations, fighting continued. The affair threatened to build up into an East-West confrontation, as Cuba's Fidel Castro and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser rushed aid to Algeria's Socialist Strongman Ahmed ben Bella. Unloaded at night from a pair of Cuban freighters in the Algerian harbor of Oran were at least four crated MIG jet fighters, 800 tons of ammunition, three field radio stations and more than enough Soviet-made weapons-including tanks, field guns, antiaircraft guns-to arm an armored regiment. Cuban soldiers accompanied the hardware. Neighborly Nasser also sent...
...member Organization of African Unity, in which Ben Bella partisans have a majority. Instead, Haile Selassie offered to serve as chairman of a truce meeting in Tunis including Hassan, Ben Bella and one of the unlikeliest political fraternities ever gathered outside the U.N. cocktail lounge-Egypt's Nasser, Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba, Libya's King Idriss, Mali's Modibo Keita, and Guinea's Sekou Toure...