Word: nasserism
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...last analysis, whether or not anything useful was achieved would depend not only on Dwight Eisenhower, Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev. It would depend, too, on Gamal Abdel Nasser, a man who in the past has shown a blind determination to gratify his own imperialistic ambitions though the heavens fall. Unless Nasser renounced his habit of setting international forest fires in the calm assumption that someone else would put them out, no agreements achieved at any summit meeting could bring stability to the Middle East...
...kept the army together, and now believes he can sit there six years more and keep Lebanon together." Once in office, he will probably ask that U.S. forces be withdrawn. Anti-Communist and essentially pro-Western, he believes Lebanon cannot survive unless it works out a lasting relationship with Nasser. Chehab is likely to withdraw Chamoun's commitment to the Eisenhower Doctrine and reaffirm Lebanese neutrality among Arab lands. Nonetheless, Washington calls him the "best hope" for peace in Lebanon...
Some Lebanese Christians feared that the rebels might get their way, and Premier Sami Solh, who narrowly escaped assassination earlier in the week (see below), angrily threatened to resign. Yet in the face of popular pressure for peace, and the fact that President Nasser seemed willing to settle for Chehab, the opposition probably could not keep up resistance much longer...
...capital city of Amman last week, where young King Hussein shakily reigns with the backing of his army and his devoted Bedouins, swift raids by spike-helmeted police rounded up all known Nasser sympathizers, as well as some 200 suspect politicians and civil servants. Who could be sure of anyone, any more? Seventy officers of the King's army are in jail, including Hussein's former close companion, Colonel Rahdi Abdullah. Anyone caught listening to Radio Cairo or to the vicious noise of the clandestine "Jordan People's Radio" was hustled off to prison...
...passengers in cars and buses are searched to the skin for arms. Almost all the Palestinian refugees (there are half a million in Jordan) are hostile to Hussein's government. Taxi drivers and civil servants, businessmen and doctors (first looking cautiously over their shoulders) admit to being pro-Nasser and anti-Hussein. A government censor scans the Amman newspapers to be sure they contain nothing critical of King Hussein; yet he also smilingly taps a picture of Egypt's Nasser and observes: "A good man." Surrounded by his Circassian bodyguards, King Hussein meets with Bedouin chiefs from...