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Festering Wound. What thrilled the Arab world was the Cairo announcement that Egypt, Syria and Iraq had at last agreed to unite in a tripartite federation. The terms of union were far stronger and more centralized than Arabs, or anyone else, had expected. There had been much talk of a loose association of nations moving slowly over the years toward actual unity. But the pulsing enthusiasm of the moment apparently swept aside much of the earlier restraint...
...Crises." He got fast results. Within three days, pro-Nasser Lieut. General Louai Attassi was named president of the Syrian Council of the Revolutionary Command, and the council itself was enlarged to admit a Nasserite majority. Attassi predicted that union with Egypt and Iraq would be achieved "shortly," claiming, "This tripartite federation will spread and spread until the entire Arab world from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf is unified in one powerful state, weighing heavily in the balance of world power...
Matter of Sabotage? For the first time in 500 years, the three key Arab states of Egypt, Iraq and Syria have a similar political posture and are on close and friendly terms. The new crowd in primitive Yemen, where 28,000 Egyptian troops are propping up still another pro-Nasser rebellion, is eager to join any alliance that can be hammered out. The monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Jordan-close friends of the West but hated enemies of the Arab nationalists-face the threat of uprisings at the hands of powerful local friends of the man in Cairo. When King...
Maybe it was and maybe it was not. In the swirling Middle East struggle, Cairo would flex its muscles where it could. The successful coups in Yemen, Syria and Iraq were no surprise to Gamal Abdel Nasser. He knew they were coming, if not precisely when and how. He knew the conspirators involved in each, though he claims to have pulled no strings. Cairo is thickly populated by exiles from every corner of the Arab world, ranging from Syria's tough Abdul Hamid Serraj, who originally failed Nasser in Damascus, to obscure Tunisians, Yemenis, Saudis, Jordanians and refugees from...
Syria, which nationalized all its banks and insurance companies after it melded into Nasser's United Arab Republic and later denationalized some when it broke away, is now expected to enter a new period of nationalization. Iraq last year nationalized virtually all the exploring concessions of the Iraq Petroleum Co., which is controlled by British, Dutch, French and U.S. oil companies. Indonesia is pressuring three major oil companies-Caltex, Stanvac and Shell-to turn over their refineries and sales outlets to the government, and Tanganyika last week informed a Belgian-controlled dock company that it will be nationalized...