Word: gamal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cajolery and wheedling were unsuccessful. Bullying and intrigue did not work. So Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, having used up all his other stunts, and being more moderate these days anyway, tried reasonable compromise on his southern neighbor, the Sudan. It worked. Last week the two nations finally got together over the division of the waters of the Nile. Nasser had urgent reasons for settling the long dispute: this month Soviet engineers arrive to start work on the first stage of the huge Aswan High Dam project-a scheme designed to expand Egypt's farmland...
...Cairo, Gamal Abdel Nasser was quick to raise his hands in horror at the news of the attack on Kassem ("I am against all this terror and killing"), but many guessed that he was just making a show of propriety. The United Arab Republic's campaign to topple Kassem has reached a screaming crescendo; fortnight ago Syria's tough Interior Minister, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, presided at a clandestine meeting in the Syrian town of El Haseke with anti-Kassem Iraqi army officers to discuss plans for Iraq's leadership should Kassem be overthrown. When the meeting...
...presentable and well educated to get Hilton jobs) have left to be married, making the Hilton such a popular employer that a large percentage of girls are among the 40,000 people who have applied there for jobs. A Cairo transit firm hired 25 lady conductors, responding to President Gamal Abdel Nasser's program for the economic emancipation of Egyptian women. Within six months most of the girl conductors had married either drivers or passengers. Today only three are left on the job. Though Cairo's Moslem women have not been kept in purdah in modern times...
...level of his prestige during the troubled days of 1958 (when he was more respected abroad than at home), the young King's comeback was spectacular. Ironically, he owes much of his new popularity to the fact that he has established friendlier relations with his old adversary, Gamal Abdel Nasser, who remains the hero of Arab nationalism, even if the enthusiasm of Jordanians for direct union with Egypt has waned. The border between Syria and Jordan, closed for weeks by Nasser's United Arab Republic, was ordered reopened by Cairo, and last week Hussein announced: "Diplomatic relations with...
...Syrian regional Cabinet for helping to put over the merger of the two countries. Last week, between the maneuverings of Nasser and the ganging up of landowners, businessmen and Moslem elders, who banded together in a conservative front, the Baath socialists lost control of Syria. Over both provinces Gamal Abdel Nasser reigned supreme...