Word: nasserism
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...sand has run out for these lost worlds. In Yemen during the late '60s, Thesiger watches as the medieval mountain fortresses of royalist chieftains are turned into rubble by Nasser's air force. In 1977 he returns to Arabia to find desert life transformed by oil. There are cities where tents once stood, motorcycle tracks instead of the hoofprints of camels, Arab schoolboys in flared trousers, and Bedu complaining that they are not getting enough government handouts. Thesiger is angered and dispirited by this seduction. His own independence and asceticism appear intact, and the only wear and tear...
Palestinians are "entitled to equal rights and selfdetermination and need equal footing in forums discussing the issue of a Palestinian state," Nasser Aruri, spokesman for the Palestine Congress of North America, said...
...signs was the take-charge attitude of President Abolhassan Banisadr, 47, who took the oath of office last week after having been elected with an impressive 76% of the vote. When the militants who are holding the U.S. embassy published documents supposedly Unking Iran's National Guidance Minister Nasser Minachi with the CIA, Banisadr denounced the militants as "lawless dictators" and criticized the national radio and television network for spreading their propaganda. Then he ordered the release from prison of Minachi, who is regarded as a man with impeccable revolutionary credentials...
...budget of under $10 billion. Sadat will not cut defense outlays ($1.4 billion this year) until the last of the Sinai is returned after 1982, so he must trim the huge subsidies ($1.7 billion) used to hold down the cost of food and fuel, a vestige of Nasser-era socialism. Despite big hikes in the cost of imported wheat (Egypt produces less than 30% of its needs), bread has been held to 1?; a loaf, the same as in the 1930s and a fifth of the real cost...
Ever since its first meeting, attended by Tito, Indonesia's Sukarno, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and India's Jawaharlal Nehru, at Belgrade in 1961, the so-called nonaligned movement has usually espoused a form of neutrality with a distinctly leftist flavor. The rhetoric has sputtered with buzz words like "anticolonialist" and "progressive." But official pronouncements increasingly have also been careful to try to keep both superpowers at haughty arm's length with even-handed warnings against Soviet "manipulation" as well as U.S. "imperialism...