Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Syria now give common degrees, follow common courses, and eventually were to use common textbooks (to be produced by Nasser's professors). The Nabulsi government also initialed an agreement with Syria for a customs and currency union that would shortly have shifted Jordan's economic capital to Damascus-an arrangement that Jerusalem's sharp traders were slow in getting wise to. In their first months in office, Nabulsi's leftists brought the Anglo-Jordanian treaty to an end. replaced the British subsidy by a pledge of financial help from Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (which only...
...pounded the table and shouted: "I'm King! I do what I want! This is my country. I will join the Baghdad Pact, if I want. I will invite Richards to come here, if I want. This is my country." Hayari saluted and took off by car for Damascus, leaving his letter of resignation behind him, and proclaiming, when he got to Syria, that the U.S. was spending fabulous sums in Jordan "to buy traitors." After naming a more compliant Bedouin to be chief of staff, Hussein ordered a purge of 60 army officers ("Replace them with sergeants...
...into Aramaic, the colloquial language of Christ's time) of the Book of Job. In all probability this is the targum that disappeared when it was suppressed (for still-obscure theological reasons) by Rabbi Gamaliel I, teacher of Saul the Pharisee, who later rode down the road to Damascus to become Paul the Apostle...
Colonel Serraj was not to be disposed of so easily. Rallying his supporters, Serraj last week massed armored units outside Damascus, threatened to seize the capital and arrest his opponents. At this news President Kuwatly was afflicted with a malaise so severe that he felt obliged to take to bed. This left matters in the hands of General Nizam el Din, who hastily deployed his artillery commander to cover the approaches to Damascus, and warned that he would meet any further tank movements with shellfire...
...week's end no tanks had yet attacked the capital, and, in open defiance of Leftist Serraj, Foreign Minister Salah Bitar announced that he had asked ex-Congressman James Richards, Ike's special ambassador to the Middle East, to visit Damascus to explain the advantages of the Eisenhower Doctrine. At this point, Colonel Serraj no longer walked like the undisputed king of the jungle...