Word: abdel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flitted around the world when U.S. marines splashed ashore in Lebanon had died away. The immediate U.S. objective of propping up the legitimate government of Lebanon had been achieved-and without gunfire. The West's thrust into the Middle East had temporarily jolted even Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser into comparative sobriety. The Russians had responded to the West's show of force with mere bluster-a fact that in time may sink into many a Middle Eastern mind. And so it was that when President Eisenhower conferred with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other...
...mixture of rocket-rattling boasts by Nikita Khrushchev and of policeman's caution by his head cop, Ivan Serov, in the Nasser-Khrushchev huddle in the Kremlin a fortnight ago undoubtedly underlined for Gamal Abdel Nasser one fact: the U.S. arrival in the Middle East was a big new event that outweighs Moscow's words...
...this note, his speech trailed off. and almost as quickly as he had appeared, Gamal Abdel Nasser disappeared to a waiting black limousine...
...misfortune of contemporary history is that any leader who tries to establish Arab unity in his own lifetime seems driven to make anti-Western emotion his main tool, and the more frenetic his outcry the more successful he is likely to be. Such is the destiny of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Arab in Western clothes...
...Pros. As the week passed, more light was shed on the men behind General El-Kassim. While their followers cried, "We are your soldiers, Gamal Abdel Nasser," the rebels seemed to be only in part a clique of Nasserian army officers. About half of the new ministers were civilians, and of these, five belonged to the banned ultranationalist, right-wing Istiqlal Party, whose members were old pros at nationalist plotting long before Nasser was ever heard of. After General El-Kassim, the most powerful man on the Council of State is Mohammed Mahdi Kubah, 52, the brains behind...