GAMAL ABDEL NASSER: Hero in Search of a Triumph

Friday, Apr. 07, 1961

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Even Lumumba's heir in the Congo. Moscow-and Cairo-blessed Antoine Gizenga, has little to show from Nasser's friendship. Says Pierre Mulele, Gizenga's "chief of mission" in Cairo: "All the aid we have got from the U.A.R. is the visa that was given me to come here." Mulele lives as Nasser's guest in a suite in Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, comforted by a big Siemens radio receiver to keep him in touch with Stanleyville. One Cairo diplomat sums up Nasser's diminished stature: "Nobody has much to hope for from his support, and nobody much to fear from his enmity."

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