Word: strongman
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Where else besides Syria had his planes taken refuge, Nasser was asked. "After enemy forces withdraw from our territory." grinned the Egyptian strongman, "we shall have many stories to tell...
...Lawyer Castro had been jailed, amnestied, exiled. In Mexico this year he pulled together a ragtag force, dubbed it the July 26 Movement (for the date of the Santiago attack), drilled it at a ranch near Mexico City. Last month Castro, crying "Liberty or death in 1956," called on Strongman Batista to step down and form a national unity government or face revolution. In Havana Castro's followers painted "This is the year" on walls...
...recent months a "strongman," Lt. Col. Abdel Saraj, has seized an unofficial but practical hold on Syrian affairs. Saraj, who is reputed to be strongly pro-Communist, is above all an Arab nationalist, and considers Nassar as the "Arab Attaturk" who will lead the Arab world to a glorious unification. As a result of this willingness to follow Nassar, Syria, in October of this year, joined with Egypt and Jordan in putting its army under joint Egyptian control in case...
Gamal Abdel Nasser felt the strain too. From the night of the first Anglo-French air assault on his country, Egypt's strongman had remained constantly at his old revolutionary headquarters on Cairo's Gezira Island. Last week, plagued by a persistent sore throat, he moved back to his Cairo home. He had been averaging only three or four hours' sleep nightly, and had not helped matters by refusing to obey doctors' orders to stop smoking. All week he stayed indoors, and for the first time since the invasion, failed to keep up his almost daily...
...come to power: young, handsome bachelor Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj. From the moment Syria proclaimed martial law after the Anglo-French and Israeli invasions of Egypt, President Shukri el Kuwatly has been the virtual prisoner of the army, and Colonel Serraj has established himself as Syria's strongman. Nominally the army's chief of intelligence, Colonel Serraj last month personally planned the sabotage of the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline to the Mediterranean, the key pro-Nasser play that cut off 60% of the Middle East oil flowing to Europe by other routes than Suez...