Word: tabei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loaded Cocktails. Leading the campaign on the spot is the United Arab Republic's Minister Mohamed El Tabei, 44. a round-shouldered little man with darting eyes. An army judge advocate who hitched himself to Nasser's star, Tabei turned up a year ago to open the U.A.R.'s first fulltime diplomatic outpost in Panama. Despite the fact that commercial relations between the U.A.R. and Panama are so minuscule that they are not even listed in world trade reports, he brought three staffers from Cairo, hired a dozen more Panamanians once he arrived...
...Tabei has not been idle. Each month the legation mails out a fat, Spanish-language bulletin full of success stories about Nasser's operation of Suez, regularly lends a documentary film on the glories of the new Egypt. Tabei recently donated a shelf of Egyptian books to the University of Panama, has also announced four scholarships for Panamanians to study in Cairo. Most important, Tabei has turned into the diplomatic set's host with the most, glorifying Egypt's canal-nationalizing over endless cocktails and dinners. A favorite guest: Aquilino Boyd, who as foreign minister...
Have a Canal. Nationalist Boyd is also a frequent guest at parties thrown by Cuban Ambassador José Antonio Cabrera Vila, but the approach to Panama that Cabrera represents is somewhat less subtle than Tabei's. Last November, before the second invasion of the Canal Zone by flag-planting rioters, a reporter-photographer team from INRA harangued the Chiriqui province students who led the riots carrying a giant-sized portrait of Fidel Castro...
Although the U.A.R. legation and the Cuban embassy are in the same block on the same street, Tabei and Cabrera are never seen talking privately, give no evidence that they coordinate a common campaign to stir up Panama's anti-U.S. nationalists. But last week Nasser's Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein Zulficar Sabri was a guest of honor in Fidel Castro's Cuba. A sure topic for talk: Panama and the U.S. Canal Zone...