Word: aleppo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...openly defied President Nasser's ban on party agitation. "Give us back our democratic freedoms," he demanded in the newspaper Al Akhbar: ". . . the right of the popular masses and other national forces to organize themselves politically in full freedom." Communist students clashed with Syrian nationalists in Damascus and Aleppo...
...balloting, 42 votes went to Archbishop Ignatius Hraike, a stern Arab nationalist from Hama, Syria, 32 votes went to 73-year-old Archbishop Theodosios Abu Rajaili of Tripoli, oldest of the archbishops. Tied for third place were pro-Soviet Candidate Ghea and young Archbishop Elias Moawad of Aleppo, reputedly the most anti-Communist...
...Signs and Symbols, a boy is exiled from his sanity while his parents wait helplessly for the telephone call from the sanitarium that will tell them that one of his recurrent suicide attempts has succeeded. "That in Aleppo Once . . ." tells of a Russian emigré torn from the girl he married "a few weeks before the gentle Germans roared into Paris.'' One story. First Love-"true in every detail to the author's remembered life"-links Nabokov to an episode in the life of the notorious Humbert Humbert, Lolita's nymphet-chasing hero. In the story...
Gamal Abdel Nasser dined quietly at Aleppo's guesthouse, then announced with studied casualness that he was going out for a tour of Syria's largest city (pop. nearly 500,000). He climbed into a black sedan driven by Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, the man he has picked for his proconsul in Syria-now known as the United Arab Republic's "Northern Region." Serraj drove him to the airport, where Nasser's private airplane waited.' Under cover of darkness and secrecy, the plane headed southwest past Israel's intervening airspace, and arrived safely...
...MIDDLE EAST The Homeless For nearly a decade, the most sensitive political ganglion in the strife-racked body of the Middle East has been the problem of the Arab refugees from Palestine. In tents and makeshift camps around Israel's borders from Gaza to Aleppo, they have lived-nearly 1,000,000 of them-in squalor and bitterness. Israel stubbornly refuses to take them back. The Arab countries just as stubbornly refuse to resettle them, on the grounds that this would be accepting defeat at the hands of Israel...