Word: beiruters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They have shown up the hollowness of Nasser's vaunted four-power pact, signed just before the Sinai invasion, by which Syrian, Saudi and Jordanian troops were supposed to march under Egyptian command. And the first frightened session of desert kings that convened after the Sinai rout in Beirut last November signaled a shift which may well make last week's Cairo session the last get-together of "positive-neutrality" Arabs...
...Beirut's plush American quarter the unshaven man in the dirty grey sweater attracted no attention. Ignored by the gossiping Lebanese police on the corner, he waited patiently until a grey Opel sedan got almost abreast of him in the narrow street. Then, calmly setting his shopping bag on the sidewalk, he pulled out a Beretta submachine gun and opened fire. Inside the car 34-year-old Colonel Ghassan Jedid Defense Commissar of Syria's outlawed Socialist Nationalist Party and onetime commandant of the Syrian military academy, slumped over dead...
Even in the absence of Shaath's testimony, however, no one in Beirut had any doubt as to who was behind Jedid's murder. In the two years since he fled to Beirut as a political refugee, Ghassan Jedid, fanatic antiCommunist, had spent his time laying the groundwork for a revolt against the Communist-infiltrated clique which Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj (TIME, Jan. 14) has led to power in Syria. Shortly after Jedid's arrival in Lebanon a Syrian court sentenced him to death in absentia for his alleged complicity in the assassination of a Serraj colleague...
Evil Designs. Saud himself had hedged carefully, but Beirut's Nahar concluded categorically: "King Saud has chosen America," and quoted Saud as having told Lebanon's Foreign Minister Charles Malik in Washington: "I am convinced that the future of the Arab world must be founded on its friendship with America...
...Appointment of the week: J. (for John) Paul Leonard, 55, to succeed the late Stephen Penrose Jr. as president of the American University of Beirut. A Ph.D. from Columbia University and onetime professor of education at Stanford, Leonard became president of San Francisco State College in 1945. moved his 800 students from four drab buildings in downtown San Francisco to a modern $18 million campus near Lake Merced, saw enrollments rise to 9,200, the prestige of his college grow to such an extent that the California legislature has just okayed a $14 million expansion program. At Beirut...