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...called "my baby." He made young (28) Editor Bechir Ben Yahmed his first Minister of Information, backed him when Yahmed allowed foreign journalists to see the defects as well as the achievements of the new regime. L'Action supported the stoutly pro-Western Bourguiba in his opposition to Nasser. But as time went on, it began to criticize the long delay in providing a new constitution, urged new elections to replace the present Constituent Assembly, which is composed only of members approved by Bourguiba's own ironically named Neo-Destour (New Constitution) Party...
...hotel entrances. Armored cars bristle before public buildings and jeep-mounted recoilless 106-mm. guns glower down the broad avenues, presumably on guard against the "corruption" and "imperialist aggressors" the Baghdad radio so ceaselessly attacks. Barefoot young people rove the banks of the Tigris, singing patriotic songs and shouting: "Nasser, Nasser." Every wall and shopwindow in town bears the image of the idol of the Nile-or that of Iraq's own Revolutionary Chief Karim Kassem...
There are signs of trouble in the top leadership. Grizzled General Kassem is no man to be taken for another Naguib. After the July revolution his right-hand man, Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Mohammed Aref, rushed to Damascus to share Nasser's balcony, returned promising quick Arab unity through union with Nasser's U.A.R., seemed to be challenging Kassem's leadership. Touring the country making rabble-rousing speeches, Aref promised to strip landlords of their vast holdings, foreigners of more of treir oil profits. But Iraq's big Kurdish minority fear they might be submerged...
...13th U.N. General Assembly opened in Manhattan last week, Lebanese Foreign Minister Charles Malik shook off the last-minute challenge of the Nasser-led Arab League, which put forward the Sudan's Foreign Minister as a rival "Arab" candidate, and with strong backing from the U.S. won election as Assembly President by a comfortable 45-to-31 vote...
...called back to public life as President Chamoun's Foreign Minister after the Suez crisis, charged with carrying out a policy that allied Lebanon more closely with the West than ever before. Though he is careful not to say so publicly, privately he is known to consider Nasser a sincere man who is dangerously provincial, unaware of and indifferent to values of freedom that civilized men, both East and West, have developed and that Malik himself cherishes. Often accused by fellow Arabs of being a "Western stooge," Malik enjoys far great prestige abroad than in his own country, where...