Word: nasserism
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Sadat has a somewhat similar goal. Ever since the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser he has been working to end Egypt's dependence on the Soviet Union and bring it closer to the West. He tried to cooperate with former Secretary of State William Rogers in Rogers' abortive peace efforts of 1971, and he went so far as to kick the Russian advisers out of Egypt in 1972. His acceptance of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's interim agreement in the Sinai has, in effect, wedded him to the notion of eventual peace with Israel...
Historians of the future will probably see this counterattack as one of the major events of the 20th century. In 1961 the first conference of nonaligned nations was held in Belgrade under the sponsorship of Yugoslavia's Tito, Egypt's Nasser and India's Nehru. The 1970s saw a rapid growth in their power and sense of purpose as well as in their tendency to blame the industrialized West for many of the world's problems. The U.N. Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972, was marred by Third World claims that...
...mandate could be kept alive. Practically speaking, however, the U.N. troops could not remain in place if one side demanded their ouster. If they were forced out by Egypt, the situation could be ominous-and there is a disturbing precedent. In May 1967, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser demanded a similar pullout of U.N. forces for their own safety in the face of "Israeli aggression" and Egyptian defensive moves. The late Secretary-General U Thant complied. Eighteen days later, the Six-Day War erupted. The Israelis were betting that Cairo would back down, partly because of fail-safe ambiguities...
...nation can escape the burden of history. For Egypt this includes the burden of Nasser's terrible act of shattering a condition of relative stability eight years ago. The traumatic effects are still at work in Israel's mind. The peace map must be constructed with precision and care so as to avoid the vulnerabilities of May 1967. This means negotiation. When does Sadat propose to look an Israeli leader in the face and reach a common human understanding...
...peace situation. "If it didn't exist, they would have to invent it." Certainly Moscow has made diplomatic, political and military headway in the Middle East by encouraging unsettled conditions between Israel and the Arab countries. Ever since the U.S. rebuffed Egypt's President Nasser by refusing to sell him weapons in 1955 and, a year later, withdrawing financial aid to build the Aswan High Dam, mammoth development projects and sophisticated Soviet weapons have flowed freely into the Arab world...