Word: niles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tour of the Soviet Union, President Gamal Abdel Nasser flew back to Cairo to assume command of the spreading Arab nationalist violence in the Middle East. Before seeing him off in a Russian jet airliner, the dictator of the Moskva hailed the dictator of the Nile for his "bravery, understanding and fearlessness before the colonizers," and pledged "all the help you need from us" in uniting the Arab world. At a huge farewell meeting for Nasser in the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev also boasted that with the launching of the new 1½-ton Sputnik III (see SCIENCE), the Soviet Union...
...Arab world!" shouted a drilled student group. Thousands excused from work lined the roads to the city, carrying Nasser pictures and waving little United Arab Republic flags in the bright spring sunshine. Jutting broad-shouldered and broad-grinning over the heads of Voroshilov and Khrushchev, the dictator of the Nile paraded, standing in an open ZIL convertible, to his luxurious guest quarters in the Kremlin...
...education. As Fast tells it, fear of the old gods and their priests caused AkhenAton's successors to denounce Aton worship, but not before the idea of monotheism had taken root in some Egyptian minds. In Fast's account, every priest and prince in the great Nile palace of King Ramses II is sworn to polytheism, but an Aton underground passes the teachings of monotheism from one generation to another. Enekhas-Amon. sister (and bedmate) of Ramses, is herself an Atonist, and she spots Baby Moses in the bulrushes, where his captive Levite mother has left...
Gamal Abdel Nasser is not the first Egyptian to covet the Sudan. The Pharaohs, the Caesars, the Turks-all who held power in Egypt-cast envious eyes to the south on the "Land of the Blacks," which controls the upper waters of the Nile. In 1951 King Farouk presumptuously proclaimed himself "King of Egypt and the Sudan"; the Sudanese ignored him. During the Sudan's first parliamentary elections in 1953, the Egyptian army officers who overthrew Farouk dispatched Major Salah Salem to dance with the natives in his undershorts and ladle out a reported $5,000,000 trying...
...fired off a note to the Sudanese government of Premier Abdalla Khalil demanding that the Sudan immediately hand over to Egypt 1) a 6,700-sq. mi. triangle of desert and scrub hills around Halaib on the Red Sea, 2) a 90-sq. mi. finger of land in the Nile River valley near the interior town of Wadi Haifa. Actually, Nasser had a legal case for his claim. After Lord Kitchener's forces (including a young subaltern lancer named Winston Churchill) defeated the Sudan's Dervishes at Omdurman in 1898, Egypt and Britain set up a joint rule...