Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Syria's military tribunal announced another espionage case in the offing. Billed as the master agent was Elie Cohn, an Egyptian Jew who stands accused-with no fewer than 63 accomplices, including 17 women-of spying for Israel. In neighboring Lebanon, Beirut's violently anti-Baath newspaper Al Moharren reported that Cohn had passed himself off as a Syrian expatriate millionaire named Kamel Amin Tabet, and had become a close friend of Baathist President General Amin Hafez by bankrolling his party's activities. Cohn-Tabet became a member of Baath's top leadership and broadcast coded...
...Attassi Case, which started as just another televised Damascus spy thriller to the accompaniment of John Philip Sousa marches, came to a jarring finale last week. In the chill of dawn, naturalized U.S. Citizen Farhan Attassi, 37, was hanged in Damascus' Al Marjah Square. Attached to the white robe customary for a condemned criminal was a large poster stating the verdict. For seven hours the limp body swayed on the gibbet, watched by curious crowds, before it was cut down and taken away for burial. On the same day, Attassi's cousin and alleged accomplice in spying...
Exhibition participants, who examined and ponderously commented on all manner of comic-strip techniques, included an assortment of professors, movie directors, publishers, and three imported American comic-strip writers: Al Capp (Li'I Abner), Alfred Andriola (Kerry Drake), Lee Falk (Mandrake, the Magician). Most of the participants seemed thoroughly convinced that significant trends can be discerned in the way Li'l Abner runs from girls or scratches his head...
...whole affair was a heady experience for the American comic-strip writers, who have long taken for granted that they are part of the American subculture. Said Al Capp: "At home, nobody has ever asked me for an autograph for himself. It's always for a demented brother who reads my junk, or his idiot nephew. Writers don't take you seriously because you draw. Artists don't take you seriously because you write. Now we come to Europe to find out that it's deep stuff, and if I stay around these guys much longer...
...INTERNATIONAL MACHINISTS: President Al Hayes, 65, retires in June, will be succeeded by Vice President P. L. ("Roy") Siemiller...