Word: nasserism
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...world's political leaders could boast of a more servile press than the United Arab Republic's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Almost from the beginning of his regime, Egypt's editors have followed Nasser's xenophobic line. But dictators being what they are, not one of them can feel secure without owning the press completely. Last week in Cairo, Nasser made the inevitable move...
...unannounced early morning seizure, U.A.R. authorities abruptly nationalized four big Cairo publishing houses. Among Nasser's new possessions: a raft of magazines and weekly newspapers, and the two most influential dailies in the Arab world. Al Akhbar (the News) and Al Ahram (the Pyramids...
...greatest of the few absolute monarchs left on earth has come out-in his own fashion-for democracy. Two years ago, towering, half-blind King Saud of Saudi Arabia, deep in debt in an oil-rich nation, beset by Nasser's efforts to stir up trouble inside the country, was compelled to call upon his more vigorous and cultivated brother, Crown Prince Feisal, to take charge of the country, save its finances, and restore its prestige in the Arab world. Since then, the treasury has been built up, and the throne has not been embroiled in the intrigues...
...patient diplomatic efforts to keep lids on a dozen potential volcanoes in the Arab world, the U.S. has to walk with care along the mountainous hatreds between the Arab nations and Israel. If U.S. diplomacy is offended in principle by the fact that Egypt's Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser bars the Suez Canal to all Israeli shipping and blacklists all ships that traffic in Israeli ports, in private it thinks first about all those Arab volcanoes spouting at the same time. Last week the State Department found the whole delicately balanced U.S. position in the Middle East jeopardized...
...days the Egyptian passenger-freighter Cleopatra has been dockbound in Manhattan, immobilized and unloaded because of a picket line thrown up by the Seafarers International Union (TIME, May 9). The union complained that Nasser's discrimination against ships touching at Israeli ports was, in effect, unfair to U.S. labor. No one questioned the legitimacy of the seamen's grievances, but Nasser angrily retaliated by declaring a counter-boycott of all U.S. shipping. The trouble spread quickly to other Moslem nations, including such carefully cultivated friends of the U.S. as Tunisia and Libya. The enraged Arab nations...