Word: aleppo
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...encompassing Nasserite national front. The conflict became acute last month when the regime began purging the Syrian army of pro-Nasser officers and noncoms. In retaliation, six Nasserite Cabinet Ministers resigned. While students staged sit-ins in the schools, pro-Nasser mobs poured into the streets of Damascus and Aleppo, where scores of demonstrators were killed or wounded battling soldiers and police. As the violence in the streets grew worse, the Baath leaders faced the prospect of destroying Arab unity and lowering the prestige of their party. Last week harassed, mournful Premier Bitar finally gave in and resigned...
...Damascus Radio repeatedly shrieked, "Ahlan Bil Wahda!" (Welcome to union). When Syrian soldiers sent bursts of tracer bullets streaking against the night sky, the radio announcer hastily told his excited listeners that it was not revolution but jubilation. THE DREAM HAS COME TRUE! headlined a Beirut paper. Aleppo nearly exploded: its main streets became a sea of screaming humanity, and cars inched along honking their horns to the rhythm...
...Israelis. Egypt does not allow mail from Syria into the country, and Radio Cairo continues to fire daily diatribes at Damascus. In the past three months, pro-Nasser forces in Syria have tossed more than 100 bombs and staged several minor coup attempts. The young Nasserite officers of the Aleppo garrison, who rose against the Damascus government last April, have been separated and shifted elsewhere by the more moderate generals in control; but Nasser's propagandists still exhort the army to "revolt against reaction, feudalism and imperialism." Syria has reacted with a formal complaint to the Arab League, demanding...
Then the soldiers began squabbling among themselves: the garrison at Aleppo briefly mutinied, demanding Syria's reunion with Nasser's Egypt; pro-Nasser mobs in Horns, Hama and Aleppo killed a score of army men; a handful of officers accused of political ambitions were shipped off to exile abroad. The army commander in chief. General Abdel Karim Zahreddin, tried vainly to put together a "government of technicians...
When preparations were complete, Zahreddin broadcast an ultimatum ordering "all officers and soldiers of the Aleppo garrison" to be confined to barracks. A Russian-made jet of the Syrian air force dropped two bombs in a futile attempt to knock out the Aleppo transmitter. The announcer hysterically broadcast news of the attack and begged Nasser to send Egyptian paratroops to save the situation. But Cairo replied only that Nasser "heard with grief-stricken heart the report of air operations by the Syrian air force against the people and army of the northern region." Damascus radio blasted the Aleppo officers...