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JULY: LEBANON. When Arab nationalism, fanned by United Arab Republic President Nasser, blasted pro-Western Iraq out of the Middle East's dwindling pro-Wrestern line-up in one night's murderous palace revolution, the U.S. sent Sixth Fleet marines and Army paratroops into Lebanon at Lebanon's request to secure it from overthrow by Nasserite rebels. Results: the U.S. 1) stabilized the situation in Lebanon for a few crucial months at least, 2) demonstrated to its allies worldwide that it was able and ready to support them, 3) showed above all that the Russians, when confronted...
...firmness at Quemoy and the prompt dispatch of marines and soldiers to Lebanon, it had prevented dramatic deterioration of the international position of the U.S. And it was a U.S. victory of sorts that Gamal Abdel Nasser, who began 1958 by triumphantly merging Egypt and Syria into the United Arab Republic, found himself at year's end at last aware that his Communist ally was a concealed enemy...
...before the organized stoning of the U.S.'s William Rountree in Baghdad (see box), the Communist hierarchy in the Middle East met in Damascus, capital of Nasser's northern province of Syria. Arab Communists have become increasingly open in their defiance of Nasser. But they took a prudent step: they divided their Syrian and Lebanese apparatus, so that if either is broken up, the other will survive. The general party line laid down in Damascus last week is understood to have been decided at a conference in Tirana, Albania last October. It is to exploit their opportunity...
Jail Training. The other Communist Party in Iraq works among the Arab majority and does very well. It put on last week's violent welcome for Rountree. Its membership is estimated at 7,000, including 5,000 released from Iraqi jails after last July's revolution. (Nuri as-Said's jails proved a fine recruiting and indoctrinating center.) Key figure in this organization is a shadowy, fiftyish figure known chiefly by the front name Abdul Aziz Sherif. Fleeing Iraq when the old regime tried to arrest him in 1950, he visited Moscow, Bucharest and then Sofia, where...
Precisely at this moment one of Washington's Middle East experts arrived in the area to collect answers to such fantastically tangled questions. Arab newspapers carried extravagant stories that Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree, 41, a Dulles protégé, was on his way to offer Nasser a big low-interest loan. Baghdad's newspaper al Zaman charged that Rountree "is coming here to weave conspiracies against...