Word: nasserism
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...describe the Egyptian role, we called on Correspondent Wilton Wynn of our Rome bureau, who began a two-year stint as a journalism instructor at Cairo's American University in 1945; later served as an Associated Press reporter in Beirut and Cairo and wrote a book called Nasser of Egypt: The Search for Dignity, which was published in 1959. Wynn joined TIME in 1962 and has intermittently covered the Middle East ever since. "I find in this younger generation," he says, "a new type of Ara-more sophisticated in political views, but still suffering from the same frustrations...
...leadership of the 100 million Arabs is, in the famous words of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, "a role wandering aimlessly about in search of an actor to play it." Now that Nasser is dead, now that his successors are gray and conventional, it is the implausible figure of Muammar Gaddafi that has acquired the role of an Arab Parsifal. He is a mere 31 years old, handsome, devout, ardent, even fanatical. "The Arabs need to be told the facts," he is fond of saying. "The Arabs need someone to make them weep, not someone to make them laugh...
Once, he recalls, he organized his fellow high school students and led a demonstration for Nasser. "I went around to all the different merchants for cloth for the flags and banners and wrote slogans on all the walls. I always dressed in Bedouin robes with my face covered, so that when the police came looking for me, they would always be told that I was just another nomad...
...court in which the captives were judged according to their country's attitude toward the Palestinian cause, they singled out as hostages the two Americans, Noel and Moore (whom they bound and beat), Belgian Eid, Saudi Host Al Malhouk and Jordanian Chargé d'Affaires Adly al Nasser. The choices did not make complete sense. Though the U.S. and Jordan have strongly opposed the Palestinian guerrilla movement, Saudi Arabia has been ambivalent, giving financial support to both Jordan and the terrorists. As for Eid, it seemed he was mistaken by his captors for a Jew; in fact...
Sales trips follow, with Sasounian sowing sample teeth and producing angry instant hoplites, to the delight or dismay of the likes of Stalin and Beria, Ben-Gurion, Nasser, SHAPE Commander General Alfred Gruenther in Paris, and Dwight David Eisenhower, who watches the demonstration on a quiet corner of the White House lawn...