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Last week Egypt's Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser completed a little "parley at the summit" with his fellow Arabs of Syria and Saudi Arabia. Their announced achievements were few, but they underlined Nasser's aspiration to establish Egypt as the leader of a united Araby and even, if possible, over all Africa. His undeclared aim: to force the West out of the whole area. Nasser's radio, "Voice of the Arabs," reaches from Morocco to Iran, from Cyprus to Portuguese Mozambique, preaching subversion, rebellion, intransigence and hatred of "imperialists." In Cairo he has gathered together a kind...
...Cairo by Ben Bella directing the assassination of any Algerian who tried to negotiate with the French. The document was headed: "Done with the Approval of Big Brother." Who was Big Brother? "All fellagha to whom we have put this question have answered with the name of Nasser...
...Nasser has scarcely bothered to hide it. Through Cairo's cafés, and with easy access to government offices, swarm the Middle East's biggest concentration of exiled terrorists and (depending on the point of view) troublemakers or patriots. In 1946 North African exiles set up the Committee for North African Liberation. The Egyptian government provided offices and funds for their support, had their representatives sit in on Arab League councils as advisers. Funds were raised, commandos recruited, trained and shipped off to the battlefronts...
Cairo newspapers headily called their session (held in Farouk's old palace) an Arabic "parley at the summit." It was quite a summit. Egypt's 38-year-old Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser, flush with achievement, had called the meeting and brought it new Middle East prestige: with his purchase of Communist arms and his inflammatory broadcasts to neighboring states, he had done as much as any man to seize opportunity on the troubled Mediterranean rim. As a show of his strength, he sent Soviet-made MIG fighters to escort Saudi Arabia's King Saud on his flight...
With Syria's President Shukri el Ku-watly, Nasser and Saud sat down to survey the North African bloodshed and Levantine disorder that their intrigue and gold had helped to promote. Outside, in the Cairo streets, the mobs reckoned on only one advantage from their strengthened position: When the "summit" leaders went to pray at Cairo's 1,000-year-old Alazhar mosque, 3,000 Moslems shouted: "Israel must be annihilated...