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...Washington turnabout. The U.S., it was reported, had resumed its Egyptian aid program, was again buying Egyptian cotton, had released $3,000,000 of Egypt's frozen funds, had agreed to a special shipment of Salk polio vaccine-was, in short, about to go all out for Nasser. "It's a great victory for Gamal," said a Cairo news vendor...
Encouraged by Nasser's loss of prestige as a result of his military defeat, Jordan's Hussein cracked down hard on Egyptian and Communist agents among his country's half-million refugees and launched a campaign to propagandize the refugees on behalf of the United Nations in general and the U.S. in particular. The main line of exposition: You are obviously better off than before. The Communists want to turn you over to the Russians, and nobody knows how the Russians would be. Let's give the Americans a chance to show what they...
...still refuse to change their line that the only way to solve the refugee problem is to force Israel to restore their homes. To accuse an Arab ruler of talking peace and compromise with Israel is still read by Arabs as a charge of treason to the refugees, and Nasser has used this charge freely. (Last week, apparently to allay any such suspicion of softness to Israel, Jordan stirred up a fresh series of border incidents backed by a volley of accusations and recriminations.) But recently, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon have shown private apprehension that the refugees...
Aboard a shiny Soviet TU-IO4 jet airliner, General Amer flashed back to Cairo to take the word to President Nasser. Next day Cairo's press blared that the Soviet Union had granted Egypt a $175 million loan, and that Industry Minister Aziz Sidky would leave shortly for Moscow to negotiate detailed projects for building docks, drydocks and an automobile assembly plant, plus developing minerals and supplying tractors and machinery. "This is what Russian aid will do for you," explained Al Akhbar in a fine burst of reckless accounting. "It will find you and your son a job because...
...Nasser has always spurned Western aid as "aid with strings." Yet chances are that his latest loan, like Syria's, also covers new arms aid, and, like Syria's, provides for explicit Russian approval for each project as it comes up. The press called the deal "a triumph for Egypt's positive neutralism...