Word: nasserism
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...spring of 1954 was a memorable season. After seven years of fighting, the French were ready to pull out of Viet Nam. Gamal Abdel Nasser took over as Premier of Egypt. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. And on an April afternoon when the Army-McCarthy hearings were dominating network television, a slender black teen-ager from Mobile, Ala., named Henry Louis Aaron hit his first major league home...
...dignitaries had not come to Algiers for combat, however. They were there to attend the fourth Summit Conference of Non-Aligned Countries, a loose-knit organization formed in 1961 during the heat of the cold war by Tito, Egypt's Gamal Nasser and India's Jawaharlal Nehru. Then, the foremost aim of the conference had been to seek means by which the smaller and poorer nations of the world could protect themselves from political and economic encroachment by the superpowers...
...Economic Theme. Nasser and Nehru are both gone now, and the international climate has changed as well. One major question facing the leaders in Algiers: Do détente and the relaxation of tensions among the big powers invalidate the need for a policy of nonalignment? Or does détente serve to reinforce the status quo-that is, a world of a few strong nations and many weak ones-and hence make the need for a coordinated policy all the more imperative? Apparently hoping to offset such a conclusion. Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev sent a message to Boumedienne...
Behind the determination of the marchers lay the shaken hopes of Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who demands a Libya-Egypt merger in the cause of Arab unity. Until a few weeks ago, Gaddafi saw himself assuming the late Gamal Abdel Nasser's mantle as the leader in the Arab fight against Israel. But Egyptian misgivings about the plan hardened during the Koran-thumping Gaddafi's bizarre visit to Cairo (TIME, July...
...president is Abdel Moneim El-kaissouni, onetime Egyptian Deputy Premier under Nasser...