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...dozen men in Cairo were groping for the political blueprint for a nation stronger, richer and more powerful than any Arab state for centuries past. If it all works out, the proposed new Middle Eastern power complex will cover 620,300 sq. mi., stretch from the borders of Turkey and Iran to Sudan and Libya, from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean and far down the Red Sea coast. It would have a population of 40 million people (expected to reach 80 million by 1985, greater than the largest nation of Western Europe) and a total gross national product...
Hero of the hour was Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Better than any man, he knew that, on the historical record, the odds were against success. Time and again, the cherished dream of Arab oneness has been shattered on the irrationality of Arab behavior, on personal rivalries, ambitions, class differences and complicated Levantine intrigues. Amid shouts of Arab joy, Egypt and Syria forged the United Arab Republic in 1958, only to see it collapse in a welter of bickering three years later. During the past five weeks of negotiations in Cairo, rumors spread of wrangling and dissension between...
Finally, at a plenary session in the gilt-and-cream great hall of Kubbah Palace, Nasser proposed a sharing of guilt. "The presence of Baath in the Arab homeland is a necessity," he declared. "The resignation of the Baath ministers from the U.A.R. government in 1961 was a mistake. Accepting the resignations was also a mistake." The Baathist delegates clapped and cheered this burying of the hatchet. In a startlingly un-Arab spirit of amity and compromise, both sides accepted the other's good faith and minimum terms...
Cheerful Borrowing. The points of agreement announced by Egypt's Premier Ali Sabry include a federal state retaining the name of the United Arab Republic, with Cairo as its capital. All citizens would share one nationality, but each of the three regions would be self-governing and in control of its separate economy. The overall government based in Cairo would have a single President (almost certainly Nasser), a presidential council with members from each region and a bicameral legislature: a House with one member for each 60,000 citizens, and a Senate representing the regions equally without regard...
Sticking point is Nasser's insistence on a single political party for the whole U.A.R., modeled on his own Arab Socialist Union in Egypt. Since this would swallow up and probably destroy the Baath movement, Baathists have held out for a looser, more representative system, including the Baath-created National Front in Iraq, and the Baathist-Nasserite Unionist Front in Syria. In the end, Nasser would probably have his way on this, as on other limitations to political democracy. A Cairo spokesman explained, in a phase definitely not borrowed from U.S. democracy, that "freedom will be guaranteed...