Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then came reports of Soviet MIGs landing in Syria. The alarm faded in a few hours when intelligence officers concluded that Nasser had simply flown his Russian planes to Damascus to save them from destruction by the British and French invaders...
...Sword & a Caress. Few rate the Callas voice as opera's sweetest or most beautiful. It has its ravishing moments. In quiet passages, it warms and caresses the air. In ensembles, it cuts through the other voices like a Damascus blade, clean and strong. But after the first hour of a performance, it tends to become strident, and late in a hard evening, begins to take on a reverberating quality, as if her mouth were full of saliva. But the special quality of the Callas voice is not tone. It is the extraordinary ability to carry...
...ending France's agony in North Africa. Cairo newspapers were elated and inflated by the visit of so important a Western statesman on such a mission. In Cairo Pineau also saw Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud and Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly, whose Radio Damascus works closely with the Voice of the Arabs and not long ago was urging Moroccan rebels to "kill those who are killing you. Spare not their women and children, for they spare not yours." In recent months, following some 40 protests by France, Nasser has toned down the broadcasts...
...night was dreadfully hot in the tiny village of Sahneh on the road from Teheran to Baghdad and Damascus. Around the solitary gasoline station and several inns, truck-driver counterparts of Scheherezade's cameleers slept in the open, and townspeople flung wide their doors. About i a.m. a gaunt wolf swept down from the mountains like an Assyrian on the fold and attacked sleeping Sahneh. The beast loped lightly over the low mud walls and slashed at sleeping villagers around the scattered huts on the out skirts. The wolf went for the head, as is the way of wolves...
Reason for Communism's easy success in Syria is the weakness that has characterized all its governments since the French pulled out in 1946. Each has been subject to the sway of Damascus' fast-mobilizing street demonstrations. The Syrian army, penetrated by Communist influence, now backs the fellow-traveling Arab Socialist Resurrection Party, which noisily opposes Western policies. Syria is the only Arab country that has elected an avowed Communist to Parliament. Having long since shed the "independent" label under which he first campaigned, Deputy Khaled Bakdash last week headed back from the 20th Communist Party Congress...