Word: nasserism
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...backing of the U.S., and they have shown willingness to accept moderate measures that the U.S. can support. Furthermore, Russian influence has dropped sharply. In African eyes, Khrushchev had proved a total flop in the Congo. Even some of his best African friends, among them Egypt's Nasser (see below) and Ghana's Nkrumah, have learned that dealing with Khrushchev is frustrating. In fact, Nkrumah has reportedly concluded that Khrushchev's "troika" is a dangerous obstacle to Africa's aspirations...
...COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA ATTACKS US, cried one daily. RUSSIA TRIES BLACKMAIL, screamed another. Khrushchev, who used to boast of Egyptian-Russian relations as an example of how the Communists could get along with another nation "whose social system is different from ours," had abruptly turned his venom on Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...schism had been long in the making. For years, Nasser had been jailing home-grown Communists-even while toasting Soviet dignitaries and signing new trade pacts with the Communist bloc. He has effectively purged them from the government, the press, the schools. Khrushchev's flirtation with Arab nationalism seemed to have come to nothing but a costly flop, and he was under pressure from the Red Chinese, who condemned aid to Nasser as an "opportunistic error...
...Khrushchev hoped to cow Nasser, the campaign was a failure. Snapped the daily Al Akhbar: "Arab public opinion is not ready to take lessons on freedom from the organizers of the blood baths in Mosul and Kirkuk" (where Iraqi Communists massacred their opponents two years ago). Columnist Mohammed el Tabee vowed: "We shall not tolerate any country's becoming the gate through which Communism can penetrate into the heart of the Arab world." Rallying behind Nasser, four members of the Arab League -Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Yemen and Jordan-denounced Russia for "interfering in the domestic affairs of an Arab...
...Arabs rallied behind the Nationalist Party, nominally led by Ali Muhsin Barwani, 42, a quiet, devout dreamer. But its real leader is militant Abdulrahman Mohammed, nicknamed Babu, a highly intelligent Communist who makes flying trips to Prague and Moscow, has taken the party from a slavish parroting of Nasser to an equally slavish parroting of Moscow. The Africans largely backed the Afro-Shirazi Party, led by a tough former merchant seaman named Abeid Karume, who is generally pro-Western, and inclined toward joining the East African Federation proposed by Tanganyika's Prime Minister Julius Nyerere...