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West Germany joined last week in the West's cautious advance toward getting along better with Gamal Abdel Nasser. Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard signed a bilateral agreement guaranteeing German exporters up to $100 million in shipments to the United Arab Republic...
...While Nasser junketed through Soviet Russia, his press grandly proclaimed that the German "loan," along with an earlier $175 million Soviet credit, would enable Egypt to fulfill its five-year plan in three years...
...down the Egyptian demand to buy more Egyptian cotton; West Germany's textile factories still seem to get as much Egyptian cotton as they need by buying at cut-rate prices from the Soviet-bloc countries, which got the cotton from Egypt in payment for Red arms to Nasser...
...power of the real anti-Americans was made clear in the Lebanese seaport of Tripoli. There a mob, demonstrating against the assassination of a pro-Nasser editor, ran amuck, burned the USIA library. Before the riot was over, some 15 were dead, another 30 wounded...
Circumstances demanded an election. Before Iraq could merge with the desert kingdom of Jordan to form an Arab federation opposed to Nasser's, Iraq's tough old (70) Strongman Nuri asSaid needed a mandate from his Iraqi voters. They had no more choice in the matter of candidates than Nasser gave the Egyptians in the plebiscite he ran off last February. Nuri was not even so insistent as Nasser that everyone get out and vote. Last week about 25% of the voters turned out peaceably at the polls, and Nuri Pasha's candidates, being unopposed...