Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hamid Khuja announced to a cheering throng that the Soviet Union had pledged itself to buy all surplus Syrian farm produce-as part of an estimated $240 million deal for Soviet-bloc tanks, guns and jet fighters. Other Syrian leaders were proclaiming that a Soviet economic mission was in Damascus to arrange Soviet aid of $500 million for building irrigation works, roads and other development projects...
...result of the U.S. State Department's ill-advised attempt publicly to isolate and quarantine Syria from its neighbors (TIME, Sept. 23). All Arab friends of the U.S. had to show Syria that they would have no part of such a maneuver. And so last week Damascus was treated to the first diplomatic visit by an Iraqi Premier (Ali Jawdat, the summer replacement of Strongman Nuri asSaid) since 1949. The most elaborate gesture of all was the visit to Syria by Saudi Arabia's King Saud, who broke off his European tour and left the waters of Baden...
Startled Guests. Outwardly his trip to Damascus looked a lot like the old "positive neutrality" sessions that King Saud used to hold with the Syrians and Egyptians before he took his stand beside Ike in Washington last winter against Communist penetration of the Middle East. Four MIG jets escorted his plane to Damascus' Mezze field, where the King stepped forth in flowing brown robes to review an honor guard, kiss the cheeks of President Shukri el Kuwatly and listen to purple-worded welcomes. Privately the King warned both Kuwatly and new Army Chief Afif Bizri (who denies U.S. allegations...
...much in evidence during Saud's visit, but sailors from a visiting Soviet cruiser and destroyer filled Damascus' streets. As if he had not seen them, Saud issued a statement that "Syria cannot possibly be a cause of threat to any of her neighbors" (a public rebuke to Dulles), and left for home. Damascus' semiofficial Al Akhbar hailed the visit as "a new victory for Arab nationalism and a severe blow to imperialist politics." But in the kind of parting gesture Arabs make so much of, Saud shook hands with President Kuwatly, then before getting into...
Cowell's globe-girdling tour began as a sabbatical, but before he got through, he found himself lecturing in a dozen Eastern cities, endowing a Cowell cup at the Madras Academy of Music, giving piano-lecture recitals on modern American music. In Damascus, his planned arrival was announced by leaflets dusted over the city by low-flying planes...