Word: arabization
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...office. For Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, it was especially provoking, for he was enjoying some of the world's loveliest scenery at Marshal Tito's villa on the Yugoslav island of Brioni. But the cables from Cairo carried word that Nasser's Arab unity scheme was in a state of collapse. Reluctantly, Egypt's leader boarded a plane and headed across the Mediterranean to deal with his troublemaking partners, the Syrians...
...Arab and African leaders generally sneer at Hassan II of Morocco because he is a King in an era of crumbled monarchies. Yet such "progressives" as Egypt's Nasser and Ghana's Nkrumah would not dare to let their own people indulge in the measure of press freedom and political democracy that Hassan allowed in last week's national elections...
...last week when he pulled up anchor and sailed away three days earlier than planned. From host Ahmed ben Bella, Algeria's young Premier, Nasser had gotten hearty cordiality and words of acclaim, but no real promise to bring Algeria into Nasser's scheme for a United Arab Republic. Cordial & Cool. As the only two socialist rulers in the Arab world, they had much in common. And Ben Bella was duly grateful to Nasser for his aid in the long struggle against France. But at the conference table. Nasser found Ben Bella to be no fawning disciple. Cool...
...face the future together? If there are in Damascus people who consider Nasserism a crime, then how do you expect me to cooperate with them?" What set off Amer's flood of rhetorical questions was the threat posed to Nasser's dream of Arab unity by the gyrations of Syria's Baath Party leaders, headed by tall, lugubrious Premier Salah Bitar. The Baath leadership wants Arab unity as much as does Nasser, but it has refused to let the party be drowned in an all-encompassing Nasserite national front. The conflict became acute last month when...
...increasingly isolated, and short of fuel and weapons. With the royalists cut off from Saudi supplies, Nasser may well be able gradually to consolidate his gains, cut down on his commitments, and ultimately complete his victory by admitting republican Yemen into his grandiose scheme for a new United Arab Republic...