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From the moment President Nasser unexpectedly observed in a speech last July that "I am not satisfied with what has been achieved in Syria," his new "northern region" has been headed for a housecleaning. In that speech Nasser complained that his Damascus regime had turned up a big deficit and spent all its reserves. Though he did not say so publicly, he was displeased by other developments. He had banned party politics; yet the Baath (socialist) party, the Commu nists and others went on politicking. Syrian Vice President Akram Hourani was acting more like a Prime Minister in Damascus than...
Last week Nasser swung his broom. In a characteristically smooth maneuver for strengthening his own authority without bruising any feelings, he announced a reorganization of the U.A.R. government. The first result was to move Hourani as a member of the new central Cabinet out of Syria and into Egypt. A second was to clip the scheming Colonel Abdel Hamid Ser-raj's power as proconsul in Syria by placing him under the Egyptian Minister of Interior, who would take over Serraj's much-prized authority to appoint Syrian provincial governors. That took care of the two most ambitious...
...clear test of strength between pro-Western President Habib Bourguiba and President Nasser of the U.A.R...
Tunisia has accused Nasser of meddling in its internal affairs and harboring mortal enemies of Bourguiba. But no note on the diplomatic break was made public, and no reason was given immediately...
...Camille Chamoun than they did when he was in office, who are the rebels. Chamoun now excoriates the U.S. for endorsing a regime that contains only his enemies. Just as Chamoun swung too Westward for Lebanon's Moslems to stomach, now the rebelled Cabinet swings too far toward Nasser for Chamoun and the Christians to tolerate...