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Ethnically Syria is a melting pot of Arab, Kurd, Turcoman, Circassian, Armenian and a score of forgotten peoples, but of its 3,900,000 inhabitants 86% are Moslem. Besides orthodox Moslems, there are Jews, five major varieties of Christian, a sprinkling of devil worshipers and 117,000 Druses, hard-bitten mountaineers who hate Christians, are free to ignore Moslem fasts and believe that an 11th century Egyptian caliph was the last incarnation...
...members: Treasury Secretary George Humphrey (soon to resign), onetime Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. (who resigned last winter), onetime Budget Director Rowland Hughes (who resigned last year, died three months ago). But the more hardheaded John Hollister saw of foreign aid the more he appreciated its hard-bitten value, and the less he attempted to cut down functions he once thought he might eliminate. This year he tried hard to make the case for a long-term foreign-aid program before a meat-ax-minded Congress, and, with a sizable assist from the President, won impressive support...
Even hard-bitten Justice Department lawyers skipped a heartbeat last spring when accused Soviet Spies Jack and Myra Soble of Manhattan pleaded guilty to "receiving and obtaining" U.S. defense secrets (TIME, April 22). The plea got them out of a tougher charge of conspiring to transmit defense secrets to Soviet agents, and in return it seemed certain that the Sobles had agreed to tell their story. Last week, as a direct outgrowth of secret Soble testimony, a federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted two more Americans as members of the ever-widening Soble ring. The two: onetime U.S. Army Intelligence...
...reported home from London for new instructions, it was with the cheery word that the Russians, after two years of backing and filling over President Eisenhower's "open skies" inspection plan, now seriously wanted to negotiate a "partial" agreement on mutual aerial inspection and arms reduction. To hard-bitten Admiral Radford, Happy Harold Stassen's expressions of "cautious optimism'' about the possibility of such agreement had an ominous sound. Snapped the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, returning to Washington from a three-week Latin American survey tour: "We cannot trust the Russians on this or anything...
...sermon in which he said: "Today they speak of criminals, perhaps tomorrow one will speak of holy criminals." On Sept. 25, 1953, the secret police came to take him away. Cardinal Wyszynski had still one more touch of consideration for the enemy: when one of the arresting officers was bitten by a watchdog, the cardinal insisted on personally bandaging his hand...