Word: arabization
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...months since he seized power in Baghdad, wiry Strongman Karim Kassem has been obsessed by one problem: how to escape domination by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. To fight off the Arab nationalists in his midst, Kassem all but handed control of the Baghdad mob to the Communists, did not even intervene when the Reds organized a stone-throwing reception for U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree (TIME, Dec. 29). Last week, for the first time, there were signs that Kassem might have come to realize that Moscow's embrace can be even more crushing than Cairo...
...motives. Israeli intelligence insists that Communist activities, at least in Egypt and Syria, are not nearly so serious as they have been made to seem, that in fact Nasser is using the Communist threat as 1) an excuse to put down honest Syrian disillusionment at the way the United Arab Republic is working out, and 2) a bogy to frighten Westerners so they will make...
...other words, Nasser is stuck with the Russians exclusively at the dam site until 1964, and they can work like beavers if they want to or sulk like turtles. Question: Where does this leave Nasser if the Russians decide to do more than mildly regret his campaign against Arab Communists...
...Communists he brought into the Middle East three years ago are now fighting him and sabotaging Arab nationalism in Syria. They "opposed the union of Syria and Egypt because they thought it would destroy their opportunities," he told the crowd at Port Said. "Some" of their members, he went on, even called for "disunity...
...after Nasser's speech, Damascus' Communist newspaper Al Noor went out of business. Syrian Communist Boss Khaled Bakdash, the leading Communist in the Arab world, went underground. Nasser's Syrian proconsul, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, was more emphatic than Nasser. "The Communist Party has shown its real self," he said. "Its attitude is treason to the Arab cause and a dagger's stab directed by people who do not represent the real face of the Syrian region...