In Cairo, President Gamal Abdel Nasser acted like an ex-champion seeking a successful comeback. He lost much of his claim for the title of Arab leadership in 1961, when an army coup wrenched Syria from its short-lived merger with Egypt in the United Arab Republic. That left Nasser without a single Arab ally, and surrounded by such virulent enemies as Iraq's Dictator Kassem and the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Then came last month's Iraqi revolution and the overthrow of Kassem. No one could blame Egypt's leader for harking back to old dreams of Arab grandeur, for this...
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