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...Similarly, the U.S. continued to stall on Egypt's month-old request to buy American surplus wheat with local currency and thus help shore up its sagging economy. Behind the American moves was a common denominator: the conviction that U.S.-Egyptian relations-political and economic-hinge on Colonel Nasser's willingness to help settle Mideast problems within the frame of international...
...swirling passions that have swept the Middle East since Nasser's seizure of the Suez Canal Company, Saud has become pivotal just by holding fast to reality. That reality confronts him every time he drives past the flaming gas flares outside Dhahran, where the U.S.-owned Arabian American Oil Co. wells tap fields that are estimated to contain three times as much oil as the whole U.S. Profits from these fields bring Saud a yearly income of $300 million, finance his government, build his palaces and swimming pools, buy him Cadillacs and Convairs. But Saud knows that without...
...fierce-looking bodyguards, their gold daggers glinting beside shiny machine pistols thrust in their black bandoleers. Twenty-one guns boomed ceremonially as a tall, majestically robed Arab King stepped down from the plane, silver-rimmed spectacles gleaming beneath his flowing, gold-banded headdress. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, an Arab in a business suit, stepped forward, and kissed him on both cheeks...
...Police controls, strident propaganda and a rash of rumors-of plots, arrests, command quarrels-betrayed the spreading uncertainty in Cairo. But all of Nasser's overpowering propaganda could not camouflage some of the facts: the Israelis were still occupying part of Sinai and all of Gaza, and refusing to pull out of their positions at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba until the Egyptians guaranteed them free access to the Red Sea. The new U.S. Middle East policy, with its implied threat to isolate Nasser if he refuses to play the game with the Western side...
...Outwardly, Egypt's foreign policy continued cocky as ever. Reporting on a visit to Cairo, Lebanon's Foreign Minister Charles Malik said in Paris that Nasser insists "that no Suez settlement is possible as long as Israel does not withdraw its troops behind the 1949 armistice lines." Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi demanded a special U.N. Assembly session on Israel's delay in evacuating Sinai and Gaza, on threat of "extremely serious consequences." These might include a threat to halt work on the canal, which would bring down on Nasser's head the wrath...