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...major military aid to any Middle Eastern state, the U.S. broke the pattern by announcing that it would sell Israel a consignment of Hawk missiles. The professed reason: to offset Communist military aid to the Arab nations. Actually, the situation has not substantially changed since the 1960 pact between Nasser and the Soviet Union, which gave Egypt 60 Ilyushin jet bombers, several squadrons of new MIG-21 fighters and 500 T-54 tanks...
...aimed at the Imam, known as Ahmad the Devil, who had ruled despotically for 14 years, survived repeated rebellions, and liked to behead his numerous enemies in public. No one is quite sure why Sallal was plotting against the Imam, but one theory is that Sallal is a Nasser sympathizer and Nasser hated the Imam for a rude poem he had once written about Arab socialism...
Gamal Abdel Nasser is about as enthusiastic about the zaars as he is about bar mitzvahs, and has long been anxious to eliminate them as a vestige of the Dark Ages. Nasser's Interior Ministry has finally got around to banning them completely under threat of a six-month to three-year jail term. Uprooting the zaars may prove difficult in remote villages, but Nasser will have no trouble in the cities, where a more sophisticated populace has outgrown them and where the neighbors are bound to hear the racket if anyone tries to stage one. Scores...
...other side stood the "Legalists," led by officers in command of the big Campo de Mayo army base outside Buenos Aires. A few are Nasser-style nationalists; others are former Peronista officers. Most of them call for early elections to choose a new Congress and a constitutional President, argue that the Peronistas should be returned at least some of their political rights. But their main point of unity last week was jealousy of the in-status of the Democrat wing of the army, and anger over the fact that they were being dismissed from key commands. When their protests...
...earnest patriot who was trying to pin small American flags to the blouses and lapels of everyone in the jammed crowd. One Russian boy let himself get pinned. Others laughed at him. With a grin, he turned the lapel over, exposing a metal button with a picture of Nasser...