Word: nasserism
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...Review articles on Egypt, Iraq, and Turkey deal with situations found in many developing countries. John E. Lawrence '63 discusses Nasser's pragmatic ideology; John L. Simmons '63 describes the problems which have held up land reform in Iraq, and Richard D. Robinson describes the Turkish revolt against the Menderes government...
Freed Slaves. Many observers suspect that this new ship of state may go swiftly on the rocks, but few of them are in the Arab world. Twelve members of oil-rich Kuwait's 50-man legislature formally requested unity with the U.A.R. Even Nasser's traditional enemies, the monarchies of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, made efforts at reconciliation. Jordan's King Hussein discreetly let 56 Nasserite and Baathist political prisoners out of jail and sent off friendly feelers to Nasser. In Saudi Arabia, alarmed by a pro-Nasser demonstration that cost 19 lives, Premier Prince Feisal tried...
...retaining the name of the United Arab Republic, with Cairo as its capital. All citizens would share one nationality, but each of the three regions would be self-governing and in control of its separate economy. The overall government based in Cairo would have a single President (almost certainly Nasser), a presidential council with members from each region and a bicameral legislature: a House with one member for each 60,000 citizens, and a Senate representing the regions equally without regard to population. The Arab press cheerfully admitted that much was borrowed from the U.S. Constitution because it provided...
Sticking point is Nasser's insistence on a single political party for the whole U.A.R., modeled on his own Arab Socialist Union in Egypt. Since this would swallow up and probably destroy the Baath movement, Baathists have held out for a looser, more representative system, including the Baath-created National Front in Iraq, and the Baathist-Nasserite Unionist Front in Syria. In the end, Nasser would probably have his way on this, as on other limitations to political democracy. A Cairo spokesman explained, in a phase definitely not borrowed from U.S. democracy, that "freedom will be guaranteed...
...week's end Cairo Radio was spreading word of a cease-fire by mutual agreement in rebellion-torn Yemen. It said that Saudi Arabia was prepared to stop supplying the royalists supporting ex-Imam Badr with money and munitions, while Nasser may withdraw a token contingent of his 28,000-man Egyptian expeditionary force by April 20. Though Nasser's broadcasters are not the most reliable sources in the world, things may well come to this, for without doubt Jordan and Saudi Arabia-and all other Arabs-are becoming increasingly anxious to avoid angering Nasser...