Word: aleppo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitter exchanges between the two countries came at a time when Syria is facing serious internal problems. Last month, according to reports from Beirut, more than 50 cadets at a military academy in Aleppo were killed by armed members of the right-wing Muslim Brotherhood. The students, most of whom belonged to Syria's small but politically dominant Alawite sect, were gunned down following an academy lecture. Announcing the slayings a week later on Damascus radio, Syria's Interior Minister, Brigadier Adnan Dabbagh, accused the brotherhood of also carrying out a series of other political assassinations since...
...Aleppo massacre, and the swift retribution against the Muslim Brotherhood that followed, were chilling reminders of the deep political and religious tensions that continue to plague Syria and now seem to threaten President Hafez Assad himself. By skillful manipulation of Syria's diverse religious, tribal and regional elements, he has given his country almost ten years of internal stability...
...joined the foreign service, he had an eye on a career in Eu rope. After a stint in West Germany, he was transferred to State's Near Eastern and South Asian bureau-NEA in Foggy Bottom shorthand-and given assignments in Damascus and the Syrian city of Aleppo in the turbulent 1950s. While based in Syria, Atherton defied an unwritten State Department rule by taking a vacation in Israel, on the theory that it would help him understand both sides of the Middle East controversy...
...Russian-built SAMs at Israeli planes, the more complex job of coordinating and planning the missile attacks was handled by Soviet experts. Advisers from the U.S.S.R. also helped the Syrian armed forces. In fact, the estimated 100 Soviet MIGs that Moscow sent to Syria last week were reassembled at Aleppo by Russian technicians...