Word: nasserism
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...from filial murder: Arab unity has been loudly trumpeted by Egypt, Syria and Iraq, but it has hardly been consummated. On the surface, everything seemed to be proceeding according to plan. Syria and Iraq lowered their national flags and raised instead the official three-star banner of Gamal Abdel Nasser's United Arab Republic. Ministers raced from capital to capital discussing plans for merging foreign services, school systems, airlines and textbooks. Military delegations brooded over the vital amalgamation of the three armed forces. Jurists were hard at work on a draft of a new federal constitution to be jointly...
...with Israel as well. In Washington, New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits led a band of colleagues in calling for a sharp change in the U.S. policy of " 'dealing evenhandedly' with friend and foe alike in the Middle East," and attacked continued financial aid to Nasser...
...still intact, and it was the Arab unity movement that was reeling. It had to do with a Cabinet crisis in Syria between the majority belonging to the Baath Socialist Party and the minority of strongly Nasserite ministers. The struggle had been brewing for two months, and pro-Nasser ministers frankly told newsmen that they intended to overthrow the Baathists. The Baath counterstrategy, as enunciated by its founder, Michel Aflak, was: "Do everything to preserve unity, but don't give an inch, and don't surrender any power...
Short & Dirty. The Cairo press cried, "Jordan explodes!" and Nasser's propaganda radio. Voice of the Arab Nation, urged Jordanians to "stage a bloody revolution to deliver Jordan from Hussein." Yet at week's end, Egypt and Nasser seemed content to let the demonstrations die down. At the present moment, chaos and anarchy in Jordan are too risky for Nasser. The brutal fact is that if Hussein falls, Israel is more than likely to march to the west bank of the Jordan River, slicing off the null piece of Jordanian territory that protrudes into Israel. And even should...
...result would be the destruction of all Gamal Abdel Nasser's plans for a new U.A.R. and the humiliation of the Arabs; for neither Nasser nor his pals can handle the tough Israeli army, especially since a third of Egypt's army is tied up in Yemen, where royalist tribes are still fighting to put the dethroned Imam back in power. As for King Hussein, as long as he controls his army, he controls Jordan. Meanwhile he is gaining time, and there is always the possibility that Nasser's new U.A.R. may break...