Word: arabization
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...Arab brethren also share pride in Nasser's achievements at home in the years since Suez. Cairo, a city as populous as Chicago, has become a bustling, busy metropolis. New skyscrapers line the banks of the Nile, throwing glittering light on the river at night and by day reflecting in their glass walls the stately grace of the sails of feluccas headed upriver with cargoes of wheat and lime...
...criticize Nasser's policies. Political activity in the usual sense is banned because, as Nasser puts it, "if I had three political parties, one would be run by the rich, one by the Soviets, and one by the U.S." The only party permitted by law is the official Arab...
Nasser's government has moved impressively into the fields of education and health. Primary schools were erected and staffed at a rate of two every three days. Education is free, and Egypt's universities are crammed with 126,000 students, including 20,000 from other Arab lands. Improved hygiene and free clinics have only increased the population pressure: the new arable land to be provided by the Aswan Dam will be barely enough to feed the estimated 55 million population in 20 years. In short, at tremendous cost, Egypt will not have gone forward but merely stood still...
...pressure of Egypt's millions, in fact, is one of the things that makes other Arab states wary of being too closely embraced by Nasser. Egypt, like China, is always threatening to spill over its borders into the relatively empty land of its neighbors. Individualistic Arabs, as well, are nervously concerned about disappearing into the straitjacket of Nasser's one-man rule...
Syria, which nationalized all its banks and insurance companies after it melded into Nasser's United Arab Republic and later denationalized some when it broke away, is now expected to enter a new period of nationalization. Iraq last year nationalized virtually all the exploring concessions of the Iraq Petroleum Co., which is controlled by British, Dutch, French and U.S. oil companies. Indonesia is pressuring three major oil companies-Caltex, Stanvac and Shell-to turn over their refineries and sales outlets to the government, and Tanganyika last week informed a Belgian-controlled dock company that it will be nationalized...