Word: nasserism
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Sadat and Nasser were leading members of the Revolutionary Command Council, which replaced the monarchy in 1952 and established first General Mohammed Naguib and later Nasser himself as Presidents of an Egyptian republic. Sadat writes about his ambivalent attitude toward his fellow revolutionary...
...founder of the Free Officers' Organization within the Egyptian army, Sadat was intimately involved in planning the military coup that overthrew the monarchy in the July Revolution of 1952. He served the new government in a variety of posts and succeeded his long time colleague Gamal Abdel Nasser as president of Egypt after Nasser's death...
Although it is rare for a politician to publish an autobiography while still in power, Sadat began his memoirs in 1975, in part to correct what he felt were false accounts of Egypt's history written by disciples of Nasser. The result is In Search of Identity: An Autobiography, which will be published in the U.S. next month by Harper & Row ($15). One part of the work appeared in TIME's Jan. 2 issue naming Sadat Man of the Year. In the excerpts that follow, Sadat gives his views of his mercurial relationship with Nasser, how the Kremlin...
Reflections on Nasser...
Egypt's President Anwar Sadat still pays lip service to the economically crippling Arab socialism of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Sadat, however, has been edging toward a mixed economy by offering generous tax breaks to encourage investment by individual Egyptians and foreigners. Even Guinea's Sekou Touré, the self-styled