Word: nasserism
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...Nasser the gambler has ever been ready to summon Russian help, which he thinks he is skillfully using without being used. It is a dangerous game he plays, and all the odds are against his winning in the end. Last week as the Russians practically smothered him with their kind of help-U.N. vetoes, hints of "volunteers," anti-Western Moscow demonstrations, threats of war-Nasser visibly fought shy of the Russian embrace. Here was a man who spread, and could continue to spread, lies and hatred of the West, but the paradox of an infinitely complicated situation was that...
After the last week's Middle East convulsion, the question was not whether Nasser is lost to the West (he was never the West's to lose), but whether he has forfeited the independence of the Arab unity movement-for Arab nationhood has no more desire to be Russia's slave than dependent on the West...
Hussein, who in 1956 had unceremoniously booted out the Arab Legion's famed English commander, Lieut. General Glubb Pasha, and ended the British $25 million-a-year subsidy to Jordan in an unsuccessful attempt to compromise with Nasser, turned now to Britain for help. Two days after the U.S. Marine landings in Lebanon, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told the House of Commons of Hussein's urgent message: "Jordan is faced with an imminent attempt by the United Arab Republic to create internal disorder and to overthrow the present regime." According to British intelligence, said Macmillan, Hussein...
Airlift to Amman. From nearby Cyprus, British transport planes airlifted 2,000 red-bereted troops of Britain's 16th parachute brigade, the "Red Devils," with 50 jets from the U.S. Sixth Fleet flying cover. Both Hussein and his people, who are as Arab as Nasser, appeared embarrassed to have the British "colonials" back: the Red Devils were confined behind barbed wire at the Amman airport. But not only was Hussein's throne shaking; the economy of Jordan was near collapse. Jordan's oil supplies were snapped off when the rebels seized Iraq, and queues lined Amman...
...recent years had seen to it that 70% of the vast oil royalties (some $300 million a year) went to the well-conceived dams and construction programs of the national Development Board. In time, Iraq's common man stood to gain more than the impoverished fellahin of Nasser's Egypt. But the cry of independence and Arab unity was irresistible...