MIDDLE EAST: Back to Gaza

Egypt's young soldier-dictator, Gamal Abdel Nasser, gave another demonstration last week of the fact that he may be down but he is still kicking. The demonstration did nothing to ease his own problems, or anybody else's, but the technique was certainly adroit. It was also becoming familiar: inciting the mobs and agitating wildly in the newspapers, then helping himself to what is doubtfully his with a careful display of scrupulous legality on his own part.

The Bystander. In accordance with the vague diplomatic "assumptions" by which the U.N. had tried to paper...

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