Word: nasserism
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Just Tired. Nasser's own Cairo speech marched toward its end on a more muted note. He welcomed Khrushchev's proposal for a summit meeting on the Middle East-even though in the first Russian proposal for five-power talks there was no mention of inviting any Arab country. Said Nasser: "At the same time that we maintain mobilization and carry arms, we also call for peace . . . We are tired of the cold war, we are tired of military groupings, we are tired of the division of the world into two camps . . . Indeed, we are tired...
...days thereafter the Cairo and Damascus radios blared Nasser's invitation to assassination to the marketplaces of Jordan, two-thirds of whose people are Palestinian Arabs sympathetic to Nasser. Other bloodthirsty cries rent the Arab...
Cried Iraqi's Education Minister Jabir Ummar at Nasser's "Revolution Day" rally: "Brothers, having wiped disgrace from its face and cleansed its defilement by agents with pieces of their bodies in Baghdad's streets, we come to you with our new Arab Iraqi revolution." The Baghdad radio called on Jordanians to "rise up and kill Hussein." And the reply of Hussein's Amman radio was to ask Iraqis: "Why have you not avenged the innocent blood shed in Baghdad? Would you leave the honor of revenge for others? What is the use of living...
...this note, his speech trailed off. and almost as quickly as he had appeared, Gamal Abdel Nasser disappeared to a waiting black limousine...
...erase the memory of the massacre there, grim tales of the revolt continued to come to light. In Athens a Belgian reported how the body of Nuri's son Sabah was dragged through the streets by a mob waving knives and portraits of Egypt's Nasser. And from his bed in Amman, 36-year-old British-trained General Sadiq Shara recited the gruesome events that took place around the swank New Baghdad Hotel...