EGYPT Under Pressure Though his enemies abroad are apt to bemoan that the Suez debacle has made Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser "stronger than ever," it did not look that way last week in Cairo. The exhilaration of Egypt's political victory, after military defeat by the British, French and Israelis, has ended. The country is settling back into a chilling swamp of unsolved problems. Nasser finds himself in need of pulling something out of his hat—something as spectacular as his Communist arms deal or his seizure of the canal company....
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