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...Beirut. Mobs stoned the Vice President of the U.S. on one continent, burned U.S. Information Agency libraries on two others. Some of the events were clearly foreseeable; others could be seized upon. Some could be planned: a new Sputnik went up in Russia in time to impress a visiting Nasser. In Algiers ambitious men leaped to a balcony to power events, and in France General Charles de Gaulle, who last controlled events to restore the French Republic after World War II, dramatically announced that he was ready to return to save it from civil...
Matter of Timing. Launching of Sputnik III was something whose timing Moscow could control -and probably did -to impress the visiting Nasser with Russian might. And obviously timed to follow Sputnik was Khrushchev's new offer of a "radical solution" of the disarmament problem, to offset the developing impression that Russia was not eager for a summit meeting it could not dominate...
...Middle East, the swelling force of Arab nationalism was bound to burst at some moment in Lebanon after Nasser spread his United Arab Republic to the tiny country's very border. It was the murder of a pro-Nasser editor, assassin unknown, that set off the mob against Lebanon's pro-Western government. There was no clear evidence that Nasser wanted the outbreak at that moment or had decreed its timing. He had merely fanned existing discontent beforehand, and his agents were prepared to ride it afterward. As Cairo, Damascus and Moscow radios dinned encouragement of the insurrection...
Winding up his 17-day tour of the Soviet Union, President Gamal Abdel Nasser flew back to Cairo to assume command of the spreading Arab nationalist violence in the Middle East. Before seeing him off in a Russian jet airliner, the dictator of the Moskva hailed the dictator of the Nile for his "bravery, understanding and fearlessness before the colonizers," and pledged "all the help you need from us" in uniting the Arab world. At a huge farewell meeting for Nasser in the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev also boasted that with the launching of the new 1½-ton Sputnik...
...part, Nasser, plainly enjoying the Russian hospitality, and reportedly given a reduction of his arms debt to Russia as a going-away present, told Khrushchev that "only imperialist, hostile, false propaganda says you are arming and preparing...