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WITH Ben-Gurion preparing to withdraw from Egyptian soil, the world's eyes swung to another defier of U.N. resolutions, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose country since 1951 has ignored a U.N. resolution to let Israeli ships through the Suez Canal. Would Nasser now agree to final clearance of the canal and negotiate an acceptable contract for its operation? Gamal Abdel Nasser is a man who once aroused universal admiration, then widespread concern. His brief career has now reached a fateful turning. For a new estimate of the 39-year-old dictator of the Nile, see FOREIGN...
...fellow Arabs that Ike had given his personal word that the Israelis would be required to withdraw without conditions, and that U.S. aid under the Eisenhower Doctrine would be unconditional. Saud tried hard to get agreement on a paragraph condemning Communist infiltration in the Middle East and to get Nasser to endorse the Eisenhower plan. In turn, Saud beat down Syrian Kuwatly's attempt to express appreciation of Russian help to the Arab cause, and refused Nasser's plea for support of his plan to block clearance of the Suez Canal as long as the Israelis failed...
...problem. It is not; but the U.S. has insisted that the area's real problems cannot be dealt with until the ugly debris of the Suez debacle is cleared away piece by piece. With Israel purging itself of aggression at last, the world could turn to Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose country has ignored a 1951 U.N. resolution calling for free passage of Israeli ships through the Suez Canal...
...turning point in the history of the Arab world." But King Saud had lingered on in Libya, and his plane touched down at Cairo's airfield a negligent six hours late. The Convair's automatic steps failed to function, and Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser had to wait an awkward several moments more before Saud stepped down into his welcoming embrace...
...once automatic alignment of Saud and Nasser was in no better working order than the automatic steps. All the way back from his warming visit to President Dwight Eisenhower, Saud had been proclaiming his faith in Ike. "I am convinced that the future of the Arab world must be founded on its friendship with America," he said. Last week, as Nasser, Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly and Jordan's young King Hussein gathered in Cairo to hear his report, Saud was a frank advocate of the U.S. position, said an informed Egyptian. "Saud spoke repeatedly...