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...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...
...Later. Few Americans faced real physical peril. One exception was U.S. Consul General John R. Barrow, who, with his British counterpart, was trapped by howling crowds on the upper floors of the U.S. consulate in the Syrian city of Aleppo. When the mobs set fire to the building, they escaped by sliding down ropes dropped from the back windows. With the help of Syrian security cops, they were able to hire taxis and, with six other Americans and Britons, made it safely to the Turkish border...
Builders and small shopkeepers are the only significant urban groups that have not been nationalized. In Damascus and Aleppo, dozens of half-completed grey buildings stand forlornly in their wooden scaffolds, abandoned by builders who stopped construction because unrealistic rent controls would deny them profit. Though 90% of all "feudalist" land has been confiscated, the government so far has allocated only 20% to farmers...
...finance nearly half the cost of a $400 million high dam on the Euphrates-Syria's answer to Aswan-that by 1972 will double the nation's irrigated acreage and electrical output, treble its $60 million cotton crop. The Russians will also string power lines from Aleppo to the dam, build oil storage tanks at the Horms refinery, and lay 500 miles of pipeline. Moscow's Eastern European allies have chipped in $200 million in aid. It all serves a historical Russian end: an opening on the Mediterranean...