Word: abdel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saudi Arabia. One man Murphy did not see was Nasser's commander in chief, General Abdel Hakim Amer. General Amer was absent on a flying visit to Saudi Arabia where he dined with King Saud, who six months ago was being blasted by Radio Cairo for having "plotted" the assassination of Nasser. Now the Cairo spokesmen cooed that Amer's visit was aimed at "purifying the Arab horizon...
...last analysis, whether or not anything useful was achieved would depend not only on Dwight Eisenhower, Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev. It would depend, too, on Gamal Abdel Nasser, a man who in the past has shown a blind determination to gratify his own imperialistic ambitions though the heavens fall. Unless Nasser renounced his habit of setting international forest fires in the calm assumption that someone else would put them out, no agreements achieved at any summit meeting could bring stability to the Middle East...
...Know, brethren," Aref cried, "that the United Arab Republic has stated through our big brother in struggle, Gamal Abdel Nasser, that it will help you and serve you. There shall be no differences among Arabs after this day. Our brother Gamal told me when we were in Damascus: 'Order, brother Abdul Sallam, for I am a soldier in your revolution...
...modern Egyptians, act out a playlet called Heroes of Port Said by fiercely vanquishing the "cowardly" British and Israelis, and-stretching a point-Americans. Behind these and similar exercises in Arab nationalism are hundreds of Egyptian schoolteachers, exported to education-hungry Mid-East nations by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, paid partly by local governments, partly by Egypt...
...general, most of the world seemed to regard the coup d'état in Iraq as a genuine national uprising, and to deplore the dispatch of British and American troops to the Middle East. But there were some sober second thoughts, and subtle shadings. Even in Gamal Abdel Nasser's world, the realization dawned that the Russians had talked big but stayed away. And here and there, a world usually divided arbitrarily into West, East and neutral reacted in much less predictable fashion. Items...