Word: nasserism
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...Moslem rebels even paid a courtesy coffee call on their former enemies at the headquarters of the Christian Phalange. The U.S. embassy declared the situation so improved that it was safe for American dependents to return to the country. The new Cabinet rescinded an earlier order expelling Nasser's ambassador from Beirut. The gesture reflected Lebanon's new-style neutralism -a desire to live in harmony with both the West and with Nasser, though becoming an ally of neither. And that was quite all right with the U.S., whose troops can hardly wait to leave...
...Arab world a leader has to decide whether to play along with Nasser's Arab "brotherhood" or to play against it. Neither choice has paid off well, since Nasser's idea of brotherhood is one in which he alone is Big Brother. After months of trying to hold his own against the cawing Cairo Radio, Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba three weeks ago decided to join the Arab League, a Cairo organization now dominated by Nasser...
...exiled Salah ben Youssef, who once fought alongside Bourguiba in the battle for Tunisian independence. Ben Youssef, says Bourguiba, has made seven attempts to kill him, has organized a private army in southern Tunisia to snipe at Bourguiba's soldiers. Bourguiba now has evidence, he went on, that Nasser's government was egging on Ben Youssef's conspiracy...
Anticipating Nasser's propagandists, Bourguiba said defiantly: "Yes, I am Western, and I will remain so." Tunisia's pro-Western policy, he said, "has enabled us to avoid many troubles." Nasser, he declared, is "not aware of the danger of Communism. Once the Iron Curtain drops, there is no escape...
Lackey was one of the mildest words Cairo had for Bourguiba. Nasser's radios warned the Tunisian President that he faces "the same destiny as Nuri as-Said," the assassinated Premier of Iraq...