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Prisoner or Circumstance. Nasser's prestige has fallen perceptibly among his Arab allies. Not even Nasser's propaganda machine can conceal the fact that Israel's army inflicted a brutal beating on Nasser's vaunted army. Countries like Saudi Arabia and Iraq, though they gave lip service to Nasser when he was attacked, have found his blockage of the canal has cost them dear in oil revenues. The Arab Kings have always resented Nasser's implied threat to reach over their heads to the street mobs in their own countries, have become increasingly aware that...
Wasting Victory. For a moment after the humiliating forced withdrawal of Britain and France, Nasser seemed stronger than ever. He had withstood, at least for a few days, two of the world's greatest colonial powers, and he had all Europe squirming in the economic pinch of the blocked canal. But the victor of the November crisis has not fared well under the wasting pressures of its aftermath. The blocked canal has cost Egypt heavily in revenues and business dependent on its traffic; Port Said is an economic wasteland and its citizens in an ugly mood. Egypt...
...foreign-exchange credits frozen by the West (including $50 million worth sequestered by the U.S., $420 million by Britain), Nasser has become increasingly dependent on the Russians in his desperate efforts to shore up the economy. The Communists have supplied him with shiploads of wheat, sold him tankersful of oil to replace the wells seized by Israel in Sinai. More and more Russians and satellite Communists are seen in Cairo nightclubs. Worse still, Nasser's own movement is infected with fellow travelers, though Nasser seems unaware...
...withdrawing it, directs the government's powerful Foreign Trade Co. In press and propaganda, key jobs on Cairo's three government papers belong to party members, and the propaganda draws so heavily on Communist techniques as to argue coaching. Khaled Moheddine, who went into exile during Nasser's early days because he was too Red for Nasser, is back editing the government's daily Al Missa. His cousin, Zachariah Moheddine, is one of the top colonels in Nasser's tight little junta...
Today, 39-year-old Gamal Abdel Nasser is a captive of his own proud insistence that he will never compromise. He is pathologically suspicious of the U.S. "It's got to the point where Nasser rejects everything the U.S. suggests simply because it comes from the U.S.," said one U.S. observer ruefully. "The trouble is that Nasser has taken such a rigid attitude on every issue that any concession he makes becomes a 'major' concession...