Egypt: Sea & Tympany

After Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956, he advised the Americans to "choke on your fury," and when John Foster Dulles died three years later, he gleefully ob served: "The worms are now feeding on this rotten old man." Though he was more restrained about the U.S. during the Kennedy years, the "nonaligned" Nasser is now back in full invective form, as he proved last week in a tympany-tempered speech at Port Said. "Anyone who does not like our atti tude," he roared, "can drink the sea....

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