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...admission, but with waning enthusiasm), Moscow could make headway by supporting the Afro-Asian drive for membership in the U.N. Security and Economic and Social councils. Tito also said that Russia is being too doctrinaire in writing off Afro-Asian countries such as Syria, Algeria, Egypt and Iraq, which have outlawed local Communist parties. Since most of the emerging states are adopting one-party socialist governments anyway, said Tito, the Soviets should back them for the time being, worry about pushing Communism later...
...rift comes at a bad time for Nasser, who has a 28,000-man Egyptian expeditionary force-at the far end of a long supply line-bogged down in a nasty little desert war with the royalists of Yemen. But the two Baath nations are having worse troubles. Iraq is deeply committed to wiping out the Kurdish rebellion in its northern provinces, and it is becoming clear that the Kurdish war is not going well. Syria is rolling downhill economically at an appalling speed, and though its Baathist regime has survived two Nasserite revolts, it may crumple before a third...
...Strategy. Nasser last week tried a lover's trick to split his foes: he began wooing Syria's Baathist ally, Iraq. In a coaxingly worded invitation, Nasser urged Iraq's President Abdul Salam Aref to visit Cairo "to see personally how much the Egyptian people like you and their Iraqi brothers." Though known to have pro-Nasser sympathies, Aref played it safe by politely refusing the invitation, and pointedly phoned Syria's Bitar to assure him of Iraq's support...
Nasser also made an impressive display of military muscle. Down the handsome Nile Corniche road in Cairo rolled new, two-stage rockets capable of launching a satellite into earth orbit and putting Israel, as well as Syria and Iraq, within easy missile range. Other new weapons included amphibious tanks, antiaircraft rockets, ground-to-air missiles, and supersonic jet fighters with speeds up to 1,350 m.p.h...
Perhaps seeking the comfort of friends, Premier Bitar announced an impending conference of Baathist leaders from Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, and "certain other countries" that he refused to name. The announced purpose: to seek a "new political strategy basis for future activity in the Middle East." Not to be outdone, Nasser called for a giant rally of all Arab nationalist movements, to elect a supreme council...