Word: nasserism
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...Hafez Assad formally ended their year-long feud by announcing not only their reconciliation but also the creation of machinery for a closer alliance of their two states. No one seriously expects a return to the kind of Syrian-Egyptian union that blossomed and then failed in Gamal Abdel Nasser's day. Instead, observers interpreted the two leaders' reference to "unionist relations" to mean that they were coordinating their diplomatic drive to force Israel to the Geneva conference table early in the coming year...
...This is it-the face of the era," wrote the reviewer in the Israeli newspaper al Hamishmar. "All the greats are collected there-Jackie Kennedy next to Ho Chi Minh, Churchill rubbing shoulders with Maria Callas and Golda next to Nasser." The event described was an exhibition of 40 TIME cover paintings, and Golda herself was there to peer at her own portrait by Boris Chaliapin. The exhibition has been seen in seven countries. Last week it opened at the U.S. Cultural Center in Madrid. The critics on the whole have been approving, although some have taken an occasional...
...delighted by Moscow's discomfort, especially because Cairo editorials likened the Soviet failure to honor the treaty to an old debacle in Egyptian-U.S. relations: the refusal by John Foster Dulles two decades ago to arm Egypt or finance the Aswan High Dam, which prompted Gamal Abdel Nasser to turn East and open Egypt to Soviet influence...
...Nasser's portrait still hangs beside Sadat's in many government offices in Cairo. Nonetheless, the de-Nasserization campaign in Egypt is likely to accelerate. For one thing, Sadat's pragmatic approach to Egypt's future is quite different from Nasser's inflamed rhetoric and crusading Pan-Arab ideology. For another, Sadat's dramatic foreign policy shift-turning Egypt increasingly toward the West-requires that Nasser's pro-Soviet policies be discredited. In Ab-dou's recent book, for example, Nasser is denounced for "bringing the Russians into the Mediterranean...
Outside Egypt, however, the veneration of Nasser will continue. Libyans, Palestinians, Syrians and other Arabs are using the memory of Nasser to attack Sadat, who is regarded by the hardliners as soft toward Israel for having signed the second Sinai accord. Conveniently, the radical Arabs forget that even Nasser mellowed somewhat before his death, accepting in principle...