Workers League - Behind the US invasion of Somalia - Mehring Books

citish military presence in Egypt in 1954 and nationalized the Suez
,anal in 1956. President of Egypt from 1956, he claimed to be
nplementing "Arab socialism," but in reality was a political repre-
.entative of the Arab bourgeoisie. Nasser's experiment in achieving
'pan-Arab union" by uniting Egypt with Syria to form the United
Arab Republic in 1956 collapsed when Syria seceded in 1961. Under
his leadership, Egypt suffered a disastrous setback in the 1967 war
with Israel.
16. Eisenhower,- Dwight David (1890-1969) — Commander of
the Allied troops in Europe for the last two years of World War II and
commander of NATO in 1950. He became US president 1953-61,
the first Republican to hold office for 20 years. During his presidency
the McCarthy witchhunt reached its high point. One of Eisenhower's
first acts as president was to refuse to commute the sentence on Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed June 18, 1953 after being
framed on espionage charges. In 1957, Eisenhower dispatched federal
troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce an antisegregation
court order. His terms as president saw some of highest peacetime
military budgets ever proposed. When he retired at the age of 70, he
warned of the potential for "misplaced power" entailed in the "military-industrial
complex."
17. Kenyatta, Jomo (1891-1978) — A Kenyan bourgeois nationalist.
He was imprisoned by the British in 1953 and accused of
leading the Mau Mau rebellion, which he denied. Released in 1961,
he became the first president of Kenya from 19(Ato 1978. He was one
of the most influential of the African nationalist leaders, but proved
as incapable as the others of finding any lasting solution to the
problems faced by the African masses.
18. Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor (1892-1975) — Under
the name of Ras Tafari, he reigned from 1930 to 1974. He was driven
out by the Italian invasion in 1936 and restored to the throne by
British imperialism in 1941. He was overthrown in a military coup in
1974.
19. Mengistu Haile Murium, Lt. Col. (1937- ) — Led the
military coup against Haile Selassie in 1974. He became head of state
in 1977. With the backing of the Soviet Union, he embarked on an
economic program known as Ethiopia First, which included nationalization.
As relations with the Soviet Union began to weaken
following the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan and Angola, Mengistu
attempted to improve relations with the US. In March 1990,
Mengistu's pretension to "Ethiopian socialism" came to an end and