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Imam was, or if in fact he existed at all-(his despite the fact that the Imam's "representative" in Cairo had busied himself with appeals for aid to both President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin. and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser saw to it that seven Arab nations issued a ringing denunciation of British "aggression...
...Diplomat Adolf A. Berle's hunch is right. Communist Russia has been operating its foreign policy by localized five-year plans-1945-50 for Europe, 1950-55 for Asia, 1955 on for the Middle East. Nasser let his new Soviet equipment be chewed up too quickly, and the Eisenhower Doctrine, which followed the Suez invasion, was a definite check to Soviet Middle East ambitions. Nonetheless the Russians were on the go again last week in the Middle East. Items...
...Playing Nasser to the Farouk of discredited Teamster President Dave Beck (Hoffa will almost certainly take over the teamster reins at the union's Miami Beach convention next month), Jimmy Hoffa allowed that he is considering a plan to combine all the nation's transport unions (aviation, trucking, shipping, railroading) into one council. Said he: "You can't have a one-city strike any more, or a strike in just one kind of transportation. You have to strike them...
...moderate tone of Nasser's performance-the tone of a frustrated man with a grievance, but not an angry caged tiger-suggested that he knows as well as anyone that the only way to end his country's economic stagnation and plan for the future is to get back on better terms with the West...
...Sakkara (TIME, Aug. 29, 1955) was a rich and penetrating fantasy of life in the Nile delta in the last hours of King Farouk. In Revolution and Roses he has moved on in time to the period when an Egyptian army clique led by General Naguib and Colonel Nasser turn out Farouk and take on the cumbrous business of governing a country that had "never had any real independence since...