Word: nasserism
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...them all, while posing as a friend of the Arab world, Russia has continued trying to stamp out Mohammedan culture, but Russian efforts to deceive Egypt's Nasser and other Moslem visitors to the area did not really fool them...
...Khartoum, slowly beating his way home. He had been to Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, Yugoslavia, Pakistan, Ceylon, Iraq and the Sudan for average stays of three to five days, and he had worked as hard as a man could at his boondoggle. He dined with Nehru, got photographed with Nasser, talked with Sukarno, Tito, Pakistani President Mohammad Ayub Khan. His message everywhere was "positive neutralism," but it always came out as neutralism against...
...more than two years, the feud between Egypt's Colonel Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein fairly curdled the Middle East's air waves with choice blends of camel drivers' curses, ancestral aspersions and bogeyman bombast. Heckling Hussein as "the little king" and "a British Zionist agent," Nasser's radios warned Hussein and "his gang" that the Jordanians would soon "hang you on poles and watch your rotten bodies swing...
...Nasser fills the earth with plots and corruption," answered King Hussein in a broadcast. "His voice and his radios rave both morning and night like one stricken with fever." Hussein's radio labeled Nasser the "new pharaoh," "Communism's first agent in the Middle East . . . pilgrimaging to his Mecca in Moscow time after time," and Bedouin signs proclaimed, at parades honoring the King: "Hussein is the son of the Prophet, Nasser the son of a postman...
...last week fevers on both sides abated, proving once again that the shifting politics of the Middle East can make the best of bedfellows transients, or the worst of enemies useful, in short order. Concern over Iraq had brought them together: Nasser's fear of an Iraq that challenged his all-Arab pretensions, Hussein's distaste for the Iraqi regime that came to power by killing his King-cousin. In a move calculated to enhance Nasser's claim to be the friend of all Arab nations and to bolster Hussein on his precarious throne, the colonel...