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From London the Commonwealth's African members flew on to Cairo, where a club of a different sort was meeting. Out of their traffic stacks high over Gamal Abdel Nasser's shiny new airport swooped jet after jet, bearing every sort of African leader from emperor to president to tribal chief. They were gathering for the second annual "summit" of the fledgling Organization of African Unity founded by His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia a little over a year...
Good as His Word. But howls of protest arose from Algeria's Ahmed ben Bella, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, and even Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. To them, Tshombe is still the renegade who played on the side of the Belgians, the man who connived at the murder of Leftist Patrice Lumumba, the Congo's first Premier. Worried at the reception they might receive in Cairo, Kasavubu nervously canceled both his and Tshombe's appearances at the O.A.U. meeting...
Thus last week Gamal Abdel Nasser and Nikita Khrushchev, accompanied at the console by the Presidents of Iraq and Yemen, formally completed the first stage of the Aswan Dam project. After 1,550 days of work, the laborers had finished piling up enough rock for the cofferdam to stem the river; the explosion set off by Nasser and his visitors opened up a diversion channel through which the Nile will now flow until the High Dam itself is completed. As the white-crested Nile rushed into the new channel, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko muttered in an unwontedly poetic mood...
...Leaders. When the Baathists seized power in March 1963, they seemed little different from their many predecessors; in 18 years of independence, Syria has had 15 coups, eight of them successful and almost all bloodless. But last July, when there was an uprising by rebels supporting Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, the difference be came clear. Baathist Strongman Hafez smashed the revolt and slew 27 Nasserite leaders - the first such mass execu tion in modern Syrian history. Warned Hafez: "Let them think twice before trying again. And if they try, let them be ready...
...past 19 months, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser has lavished ill-spared funds and fighting men on the backward, arid republic of Yemen, where a revolutionary leader backed by Nasser is struggling against the stubborn remnants of the ousted royal regime. Nasser has committed 36,000 Egyptian troops - one-third of his entire army - but the royalists still control the countryside, penning the revolutionaries in a few garrisons. Last week, paying his first visit to Yemen since the 1962 coup, Nasser was plainly anxious to decide whether to cut his losses or to continue the costly desert...