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...ablaze with beseeching banners. One candidate had already unmasked a rival as an "American agent," and the rival was desperately taking ads in the papers to protest his 100% Egyptianism. Another was laying siege to coffeehouse customers with a tape-recorded tune: "With freedom elect him. Elect Moussa Sabri." To make sure the fun was harmless, Nasser instituted a new legal provision last week: any speaker who criticizes any public official must furnish the authorities with documentary proof of his charges within five days of making them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Going to the People | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...telephoned insistence that Syria's President Kuwatly-accompanied by Nasser's top aide, Ali Sabri-journeyed to Riyadh, where the desert King lectured the two of them like a displeased father and more or less ordered them to stop interfering in Jordan's "strictly internal" affairs. No sooner had they left (without even the formality of the usual communique praising Arab "unity"), than Saud got on the phone again to invite Hussein to Riyadh. Hussein hustled down by air last week, and King Saud gave him a big pep talk on the importance of keeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Protector of Islam | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...York, Nasser declared the canal open, and published his terms in a memorandum circulated to seven nations (but not to Britain and France), seeking "comments." His primary condition: the canal will be operated and managed by the nationalized Suez Canal Authority, and nobody else. Said Egyptian Spokesman Ali Sabri: "There will be no foreign supervision whatsoever." Other provisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIDDLE EAST: Nasser's Canal | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...Left Out. In Cairo last week. Nasser acted like a man frantically afraid he was being left out. With Saud about to arrive, he hastily called his ally, Premier Sabri el Assali of Syria. Young King Hussein flew over from Jordan. Nasser's purpose: to talk them into replacing the subsidy Britain has for so long paid Jordan to support its Arab legion and base troops there. Nasser obviously feared that, with U.S. help under the Eisenhower doctrine. Saud might do it alone, forming a U.S.-backed partnership with Jordan that had no place for Nasser. It took Nasser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: The King Comes West | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...could now count on a majority because so many moderate members of Parliament had fled the country, and the moderates who stayed were not strong. "I'm tired of being a civilian front for an army clique," said one minister visiting in Lebanon. A nationalist moderate himself, Premier Sabri el Assali managed to keep the Interior Ministry with its police authority himself, and to keep" Serraj's closest friends out of the Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYRIA: Slippage to the Left | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

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