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The 'OMEGA' memorandum[1] of March 21, 1956, was a secret United States informal policy memorandum drafted by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles for President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The document realigned Middle Eastern policy towards marginalization of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in light of his Soviet leanings and failure to provide the leadership that Dulles and Eisenhower had desired towards settling the Arab-Israeli conflict. The document's planned tactics were restriction of Eisenhower's 1954 Food for Peace program and other economic aid, delay and eventual cancellation of Aswan Dam funding, and the beginnings of a search for new leaders in the Arab world to use for peace promotion. However, the memo explicity leaves policy room for Nasser's rehabilitation as a U.S. regional ally; it aimed at Nasser's marginalization but not his 'destruction' - a marked difference to the correspondent British regional policy review of the same month, a difference that was displayed openly during the Suez Canal Crisis of the same year.
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"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
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Memorandum (also more commonly memo) is a brief written record or communication, used in an office, whether business, government, education institution or legal office. The plural form is either memoranda or memorandums.
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Department of State

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Headquarters Harry S Truman Building
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John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world.
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Dwight David Eisenhower (October 14 1890 – March 28 1969), nicknamed "Ike", was a five-star General in the United States Army and U.S. politician, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United States (1953–1961).
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Middle East is a historical and political region of Africa-Eurasia with no clear boundaries. The term "Middle East" was popularized around 1900 in Britain, and has been criticized for its loose definition.
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Marginalization

Young (2000) defines marginalization as exclusion from meaningful participation in society, partly because the labour market does not or cannot accommodate them, proving to be one of the most dangerous forms of oppression.
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Gumhūriyyat Miṣr al-ʿArabiyyah
Arab Republic of Egypt


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Gamal Abdel Nasser (Arabic: جمال عبد الناصر - Gamāl ‘Abd an-Nāṣir
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Public Law 480 also known as Food for Peace is a funding avenue by which US food can be used for overseas aid.

It has four parts, title 1,2,3 and title 5. Title 1 is manged by USDA (United States Department of Agriculture), while title 2, 3 and 5 are managed by the U.S.
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AID may refer to:
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  • Americans for Informed Democracy, an American non-profit organization

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Aswan High Dam (Arabic: السد العالي; transliterated: as-Sad al-'Aly), and the older Aswan Dam or Aswan Low Dam.
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Arab World (Arabic: العالم العربي; Transliteration: al-`alam al-`arabi) stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea
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Suez Canal (Arabic: قناة السويس, transliteration: Qanā al-Suways
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Suez Crisis[1] (Arabic: أزمة السويس - العدوان الثلاثي
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