Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moslem modesty, pretty Princess Aisha, 26, the French-educated eldest daughter of King Mohammed V of Morocco, is an ardent champion of women's rights in Islam, an area where a lot of pioneering remains to be done on the subject. Last week she carried her fight to Damascus, and proved herself as delectable an agitator as ever made an Arab forget John Foster Dulles. Syria, which had other things to worry about, feted her all week, put her up in a palace, provided her with a Cadillac, and lined up in the streets to watch her pass...
...leader of a delegation of five Moroccan women to the fourth congress of the Pan-Arab Women's Federation in Damascus, smoking cigarettes with Continental casualness in a decolleté, skin-tight gown which had the other 300 delegates from nine Arab countries* goggling, the princess tucked one shapely foot under her and discussed her favorite topics: divorce and the veil. Morocco, she said, will soon have a law requiring men to produce legitimate reasons for a divorce instead of just telling a woman three times to go away. "Of course," she added, "we cannot forbid divorce, and besides...
...Damascus this week the big news was the opening of the fair. The U.S.-which made a great success at the Damascus Fair three years ago with Cinerama-concluded that Cinerama was not enough to save Syria from Soviet penetration, and was not represented. It was left to exhibits from nine Communist countries to dominate the fairgrounds...
...Syria, it was a show of correct innocence. "Not a single Soviet soldier, apart from the military attache, has been or is now in Syria,'' said Moscow radio, and to make the story more credible, T-34 tanks were withdrawn from conspicuous posts on the road to Damascus. Western correspondents suddenly found the offices of Syrian political and military leaders more accessible than in years, as if to prove all the earlier headlines untrue. The Syrian government, worried by the abrupt ups and downs of its currency, sought to reassure conservative Syrian businessmen that a leftist government...
...with the proclaimed intention of giving Syria independence) overwhelmed 35,000 stubborn Vichy troops. The Free French almost immediately began to retreat from their promises of freedom, but France's wartime weakness gave her old Mideast rival Britain an irresistible opportunity. In 1945, when rioting broke out in Damascus, Winston Churchill compelled the French to confine their troops in Syria to barracks. Within two months Syria was for all practical purposes an independent state...