Word: nasserism
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Adenauer . . . Ben-Gurion . . . Nasser ... John Foster Dulles. And the Shah of Iran . . . Admiral Rickover . . . Ernest Hemingway...
Then, in the presence of Morocco's visiting King Mohammed V, Soviet Power Station Minister Ignaty Novikov, Cuba's Foreign Minister Raul Roa, and scores of other dignitaries, including the American and British charges d'affaires. President Gamal Nasser yanked the switch that exploded ten tons of dynamite in the river cliff. At last, work had begun on the billion-dollar Aswan High Dam, which when built will be a mightier achievement than the proudest pyramid of the Pharaohs. It will increase Egypt's arable land by one-third, reclaiming 1,000,000 acres of desert...
Four years ago, when John Foster Dulles abruptly withdrew a U.S. tender of a $56 million Aswan Dam loan, it looked as if the dam might never be built. But the Russians came through with a promise of about $10 million. That offer has survived Nasser's later disenchantment with the Soviets (he has, for example, quietly withdrawn many Egyptian students from Russian universities, is sending 500 to study in the U.S.). At the Aswan ceremonies, after duly thanking "the country that agreed to help us," Nasser grandly dismissed past "threats and economic pressures'' from the West...
...Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold thereupon flew out to see Nasser, reported back to the Israelis that Cairo would have no objections to letting cargoes pass in future if title to Israeli exports had already passed to foreign purchasers, and if imports were not yet technically Israeli-owned. Israel disliked this compromise, but observed it. Last week a Greek freighter fulfilling Hammarskjold's conditions-Israeli cement purchased f.o.b. Haifa by an Eritrean importer-was stopped in Port Said. Hammarskjold's own prestige and assurances were thus at stake. As Hammarskjold set off on a tour of Africa, he scheduled...
...effect by 1961. It will feature a strong executive, an absence of political parties ("Otherwise, we will have no peace"), and the in direct election of a national legislature and President by the new councils, serving as electoral colleges. The idea resembles the democracy-from-the-ground-up that Nasser tells U.S. visitors he dreams of for Egypt. It still leaves a strongman running the show, and depends on his good intentions. Once his plans are complete, Ayub promises, the army will give up the administration of the country because "it has many other things...