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...arrest that mood. At the moment, the government of Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury is operating on the dubious premise that the revolt can be "pacified," after which Algerian nationalists will get political benefits. But the deadline to this sort of postponement is the September U.N. session, when the Arab-Asian bloc can be expected to raise the Algerian question again. The French government is currently studying a project to offer Algeria a loi cadre (a "skeleton of law" to be fleshed out as the need arises), in advance of the U.N. session. This would reportedly decentralize and gerrymander Algeria...
Colonel Nasser is utilizing Arab-Israeli tensions to consolidate his own position and bolster his own prestige, Yigal Allon, M.P., General Secretary of the Zionist-Socialist Party told the International Seminar Tuesday...
...addition, Nasser is most anxious to establish an Egyptian hegemony among the Arab states. Only the threat of an outside foe can overcome the mutual jealousies that ordinarily tend to separate the Arabs, so once again, Allon said, Nasser must keep before his would-be allies the image of a threatening Israel...
...other factors account for the intensity of Nasser's anti-Israeli campaign, Allon said. One is the natural desire to gain revenge for the horrendous losses the Eyyptians have sustained, both in the 1948 war and in the more recent Sinai campaign. Second, Nasser, like the other Arab rulers, maintain their personal positions only by dictatorial methods. They earnestly desire, said Allon, to destroy Israel, "this little show window of parliamentary democracy...
...that the greatest service the A.U.B. can perform is to stick by its founder's credo. The main purpose of the university's schools-Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Public Health, Engineering and Agriculture-is to teach Western techniques to be used within the framework of Arab culture. "The students," says one psychologist, "can't help but respect the United States more, because we give them the freedom to disagree...