Word: nasserism
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...this unexpected turn of events, an idea came to suave, balding Mahmoud Fawzi, Foreign Minister of the United Arab Republic and the only Farouk-era holdover to retain a senior post in Nasser's revolution. Fawzi, a topflight international lawyer, skillfully pounced on a fact which almost everyone else had overlooked: if the great powers were prepared to accept a compromise settlement, they could scarcely reject a compromise proposed by a united front of Arab states. And there was every reason why all Arab powers, including the violently anti-Nasser governments of Lebanon and Jordan, might join in sponsoring...
...Russia's Gromyko, complaining that the resolution did not call for "immediate withdrawal" of U.S. and British troops, threatened to reopen the debate at the next regular Assembly session (Sept. 16). From the Israelis came the bitter complaint that "This makes the Middle East's prime troublemakers-Nasser and the Arab League -into its policemen." But in the last analysis, nobody wanted to go on record as opposing an Arab solution to Arab problems, and when it came to a vote the resolution passed...
...Jordan shut off its radio war against Egypt and hoped Cairo would reciprocate. Hussein, who only a year ago had accepted Egyptian command of his army after driving out the British, said he hoped to resume diplomatic relations with the nation that called him traitor. Some diplomats thought that Nasser would think twice about inheriting the creaky state of Jordan if he felt that Israel would fight to keep Jordan out of his hands. Nasser's economic and political difficulties in absorbing Syria (TIME, June 30) may also have persuaded him that out-and-out annexation of other Arab...
Syria, after more than six months of Nasser's rule by remote control, found its economy shakier than before. To quiet dissatisfied Syrian businessmen. Nasser allowed Syria a separate budget, vetoed some of his planners' grandiose schemes and ordered a cut in armaments. Unhappy Syrian officers reportedly flung their caps on the table, the traditional gesture of threatening to resign from the army if they do not have their way. More agreeable to Nasser was his three-day meeting with Crown Prince Feisal, Premier of oil-rich Saudi Arabia, who announced that "clouds between the two countries have...
Through the hot summer nights the radio voices continued to shrill defiance in accents as arresting as those of a muezzin calling the faithful to prayer from a minaret, with words as incendiary as a skyful of fire bombs. Nasser's propagandists were sure that they had the edge. Mused one contentedly: "Our radio is so successful because any Arab anywhere in the Arab world can simply turn the knob and hear the echo of thoughts that fill his own heart...