Word: beiruters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When election day finally came, 60 delegates assembled in the Grand Hall of the Patriarchate-archbishops in long beards and flowing black robes, city dwellers from Beirut and Damascus in Western suits and tarbooshes, Christians from the Hauran Desert in Arab headdresses. Each delegate was allowed three nominations. In the 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...
...moderate, gentle man with seven languages at his command, the Beirut-born patriarch is expected to try to keep his church out of politics, though the Russians may be too tough for him. Said one knowing Lebanese last week: "I bet they've started work on that old man already. And it's doubtful that he'll be able to know everything that's going on in the patriarchate. Anyway, it won't be too long before the Russians have another crack at getting their...
...Blame? Jordan's airport control tower at Amman had relayed the King's flight plan-from Amman to Beirut via Syria-as required by the international aviation regulations. But had anyone also obtained the overflight clearance through diplomatic channels required before the King's plane could cross a foreign border? There was an embarrassing silence in Amman. Someone thought the flight had been cleared through U.N. Representative Pier Spinelli. In a prompt denial, Spinelli snapped: "What do you think we are, a travel bureau?" The chief of the Royal Jordanian Air Force, Lieut. Colonel Ibrahim Othman...
Only last summer, when revolt blazed in Beirut and Baghdad, most of the prophets on the scene forecast that the racing fires of Arab nationalism must shortly fuse the Arab East into one great state. Realists urged the West to quit backing losing friends and to get right with the winners. They pointed to the miserable conditions in the lands ruled by Western allies, but had less to say about the unchanging misery in the lands of the winners. Nasser himself seemed almost plausible when he shouted that scheming colonialists had split the Middle East to rule it, drawing their...
Thus quietly and without ceremony did the final shipload of 1,126 U.S. Army men, last of the 10,000 American troops brought to the Middle East last July, leave Lebanese soil last week. They left a wearied Beirut at last in some semblance of peace: movies reopened last week, and the curfew was eased. In a sense, U.S. troops sneaked out of town-but for a good reason. The embarkation timetable was deliberately kept secret in memory of the way Arab nationalist bravos in Egypt, when the withdrawing Anglo-French forces were reduced to a rearguard, began sniping...