Word: nasserism
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...uncommitted nations, Communism has come to seem not only less powerful but also much less appealing. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, leader of the emergent United Arab Republic, has accepted massive military and economic aid from Russia, but has also cracked down relentlessly on local Communists. Almost all the new nations of Africa have rejected Communism roundly-even Guinea, which two years ago appeared to be well on the way to becoming a Communist outpost...
...only a matter of time before the emotional repercussions of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Arab unity movement would sweep across the kingdom of Jordan. Last week Nasserite crowds swarmed through Jerusalem and towns on the West Bank of the Jordan River, shooting off rifles and tommy guns and demanding immediate merger with Nasser's projected federation. King Hussein called out desert troops and police reinforcements, clamped an emergency curfew on the Holy City. In the capital city of Amman, shouting students carrying Arab unity flags with a fourth star for Jordan were peacefully dispersed, but armored cars warily...
...hours later, in a stormy debate in Amman's House of Representatives, 32 of the 60 legislators rose to attack the policies of Prime Minister Samir Rifai, whom Hussein had appointed only 24 days earlier. Rifai was in favor of linking Jordan with Nasser's group, but wanted to take his time about it. The parliamentarians did not want to wait. After nine hours of it, Rifai stormed out of the chamber, handed his resignation to King Hussein...
...years ago, when Nasser nationalized all the banks in the United Arab Republic, Shoman lost six branches. When Syria and Iraq recently announced their intention to merge with Egypt, the threat of losing twelve more branches would have driven most bankers to despair. But Shoman believes that any step toward Arab unity is worth some losses. "If the Arab world could be joined together and Arabs could trade freely, they would prosper like Americans," he says. "For the sake of Arab unity, I'll give it all away." He may not have to: aside from his family...
Died. Evgeny Dmitrievich Kiselev, 54, Russia's top man in the U.N. Secretariat as Under Secretary for Political and Security Council Affairs, a smooth, ever-smiling career diplomat who was Ambassador to Cairo (1955-59), where he wooed Nasser during the Suez crisis with promises of Russian arms; after a heart attack; in Manhattan...