Word: pan-arab
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...singularly varied collection of rulers that gathered in Algiers last week in the name of Arab unity. Among the representatives of the 16 nations who assembled for the sixth pan-Arab summit since 1964 were Marxist revolutionaries and Moslem kings, sheiks in flowing robes and guerrillas in commando uniform. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat showed up in a neatly tailored suit of banker's blue; Saudi Arabia's King Feisal wore a richly brown bisht with gold trim. While most of the delegates flew into Algiers' Dar el Beida airport, where they were greeted with 21-gun salutes...
...months later, at a postwar conference in Khartoum, Nasser achieved a sort of pan-Arab detente, primarily with Saudi Arabia and Libya. The new relationship between Egypt and Saudi Arabia was particularly important because it helped eradicate the ideological conflicts of what had been a kind of inter-Arab cold war. Egypt, after all, was officially a socialist state; Saudi Arabia was a traditionalist monarchy. "Nasser's revolution," says the same Lebanese scholar, "was replaced by the beginning of a moderate, middle-of-the-road nationalist Arab...
Gaddafi is a dedicated pan-Arab in the Nasser tradition, but where Nasser swayed the Arab masses with his personality, Gaddafi supplies cash. Libya's annual oil income is $2.4 billion; the money comes in almost faster than Gaddafi can spend it, but no one can accuse him of not trying. In impulsive, mysterious ways, Gaddafi hands it out to some of the political visitors who are understandably streaming into the Libyan capital nowadays...
Sadat, among other things, is attempting to come to grips with the kinds of domestic problems that Nasser shunted aside as he pursued his costly war with Israel and his grandiose visions of Pan-Arab unity. Egypt last week reached a population of 34 million (early this year, Israel proudly welcomed its three-millionth citizen). At present, Egyptian babies are being born at the rate of one every 40 seconds. Sadat is trying to meet some of the inevitable problems that this overbreeding creates, particularly in a nation where much of the population is crowded into a narrow ribbon...
...young nurse while he was hospitalized for appendicitis and took her as his second wife last July, many government members felt that this was hardly proper revolutionary behavior. His chief rival, Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Major Abdul Salam Jalloud, would like to see Gaddafi pay less attention to pan-Arab unity schemes and more to domestic development. Despite a $1.5 billion foreign exchange reserve, little has been done to improve the lot of Libya's 1,900,000 people, 72% of whom are illiterate. With almost no new housing, hospitals or schools being built, the question...