Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airport was a spry little Arab in a long white gown and a white skullcap, sandals on his feet and a light of wonder in his eyes. At 71, Ahmed Youssef Murad-sometime Montana homesteader, World War I doughboy, Kentucky restaurant owner and elder of a mosque in Damascus-was happy. "My hadj was a gift of God," he said. "I will do it again if I live...
...West Virginia, the names of relatives and not a word of English. But he learned fast, traveled far and lived well, until a quarrel with his Kentucky wife ended in divorce, and in 1947 he decided to go back to the Middle East. He bought a small house in Damascus, married again and settled down to a simple life on skimpy savings and a U.S. Army pension. This spring he prepared for the hadj to Mecca...
...still stitching rugs and, as her father (Ronald Squire) puts it, "getting a bit weedy." The Marquis of Valhubert has been 1) captured by the Germans, 2) interned by the Russians, 3) ordered to the Sahara, 4) transferred to Lake Chad, 5) shipped to Ceylon, 6) posted to Damascus, 7) rushed off to Dienbienphu...
...Bargain. In this planlessness and confusion of purposes lay the seeds of Iraq's present chaos. When Aref flew off to Damascus for a much-publicized meeting with Nasser, and Egyptian MIGs began operating on Iraqi airfields, Kassem recoiled, began looking for allies against the eloquent Aref and his Nasserite followers. The Communists, who, alone among Iraqi political parties, had emerged from Nuri's police state lean, hard and well organized, were only too ready to give Kassem the help he wanted-for a price...
Prosecutor: Colonel Aref went to Damascus and plotted with Nasser to invite Kassem there so that Kassem might be assassinated when he landed at the airport. (Horrified gasps from the audience.) But our leader knew of this plot and rejected the invitation, and will reject it forever. (Stormy applause...