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Your Sept. 26 cover story on Premier Nasser of Egypt was an elegant piece of reporting. Gamal Nasser is truly representative of the modern Middle East's heads of state, a man of great executive and administrative ability, a person with much military know-how and a leader who maintains his touch with the "common...
...spite of your repeated assurances that Egypt's Nasser is handsome, dashing and "carries his 200 Ibs. with lithe grace," and your remarkable statement that he is the only one who can prevent "massed retaliation" against the Israeli "aggressors," you can hardly conceal the fact that this military dictator and self-anointed "liberator" of the fatherland is now definitely on the skids . . . Since he can't cope with the trouble within Egypt's borders, he is stirring up trouble beyond the borders . . . This is the traditional method of dictators, and of those in the Middle East...
Risky Course. The arms that Nasser needs are tanks, jet planes, heavy artillery and a few naval craft. Czechoslovakia's famed Skoda armament works, now named for Lenin and controlled by the Soviet army, is well equipped to supply most of the arms. But to make effective use of Czech weapons, the Egyptian army will be obliged to set up a maintenance supply line running back to Prague, and, therefore, to Moscow. Thus Russia can secure a linn and influential hold on an area hitherto dominated by the West...
...Nasser, no Communist, gave his reasons for taking such a risky course. "We insist.'' he said, "on securing arms for our army to safeguard our revolution and our independence, and to preserve our dignity.'' The fact that Israel (pop. 1,700,000) has an army more than twice the size of Egypt's (pop. 22.5 million) is a constant source of humiliation to Nasser's military junta. It enables Israel to move in and out of the demilitarized border zone of El Auja with impunity, as it did last week, and it gives...
...meet this, or any other Israeli challenge, Nasser has a mixed assortment of arms, including 32 obsolescent Centurion tanks, eleven Meteor and 26 Vampire jets and some 150 anti-tank guns, given to him by the British. But the British, who have no confidence in Nasser's long-range intentions, have also provided the Israelis with similar heavy weapons...