Word: nasserism
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...quite clear last week that the latest shake of the kaleidoscope resulted in new patterns and alignments overwhelmingly favorable to Gamal Abdel Nasser. The Syrian revolution was the third in six months by rebels pledged to make common cause with Egypt. Flights of new leaders poured into Cairo for tear-stained embraces with Nasser and nightlong conferences on the future course of that misty concept called Arab unity. Nasser stands at the pinnacle of prestige, if not of power, and the shadow he casts has never been longer. Today, it falls over the entire Arab world from the Persian Gulf...
President Nasser and President Kennedy have become close correspondents. "We are very frank with each other," says Nasser. "We don't exchange diplomatic words but express honest and frank opinions. I believe we have built up a confidence in each other." The confidence ex tends to U.S. Ambassador John Badeau, who speaks fluent Arabic and has unlimited access to Nasser, while his British counterpart sees Nasser only twice a year at formal meetings. The Communists are so convinced that the U.S. controls events in the Middle East that the Polish ambassador in Cairo stopped a U.S. diplomat...
Jiggled Leg. At week's end in Cairo, the conferences on Arab unity droned on to the accompaniment of cigarette smoke and endless small cups of coffee. Nasser sat in on the negotiations, serenely confident that what finally emerged would be what he wanted. At 45, Nasser's hair has greyed at the temples, and he has given up tennis for the less demanding sport of swimming. He appears as physically fit as ever and retains his old nervous habits of jiggling his leg while sitting, and of smoking five packs of L. & M.s a day; like most...
Even more than Russians, Arabs express their folk wisdom in proverbs, ranging from the cautionary (see cover) to the racially skeptical ("Better the tyranny of the Turks than the justice of the Arabs"). There are proverbs aplenty to fit the dream of unity. To the ambitious Nasser, other Arab leaders might point out the one that says. "The camel driver has his plans, and the camel has his." But proverbs are eclipsed by power, and last week nothing was more certain than that whatever unity scheme emerges in the Middle East, must, first of all, be satisfactory to Gamal Abdel...
Matter of Sabotage? For the first time in 500 years, the three key Arab states of Egypt, Iraq and Syria have a similar political posture and are on close and friendly terms. The new crowd in primitive Yemen, where 28,000 Egyptian troops are propping up still another pro-Nasser rebellion, is eager to join any alliance that can be hammered out. The monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Jordan-close friends of the West but hated enemies of the Arab nationalists-face the threat of uprisings at the hands of powerful local friends of the man in Cairo. When King...