Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another of his anti-Communist speeches broadcast from Damascus, capital of the Syrian region of the U.A.R., Nasser today recalled a series of Syrian-Israel border clashes...
...Crescent. On the third day, still stung by the discovery that an Arab street mob could jeer his name, Nasser in Damascus ordered up what his press unblinkingly called "the largest Arab anti-Communist demonstration ever seen." The crowd had been whipped up by Friday sermons in the mosques. It was given a martyr's pageant of its own, similar to the one in Baghdad: a lugubrious cortege for a wounded Iraqi captain who had fled Mosul when the revolt failed, and died in a Damascus hospital. Nasser crowed that "the banners of Arab nationalism" would...
...first reaction was to accuse Iraqi Communists of trying to split Arab brotherhood. The man who only last month insisted that there was no connection between the "friendly" Soviet Union and the local Communist troublemakers of Syria and Egypt now proclaimed from his Damascus balcony that "the Communist Party works for foreigners. Nobody in the Arab world will respond to them because they are agents of a foreign power." Next day, under the sting of Kassem's accusations of conspiracy, Nasser dropped all pretense of soldierly comradeship with Kassem and attacked him in person as a man who fights...
...DAMASCUS, Syria, March 13--The Reds are converting Iraq into a base for operations in the Arab world, President Gamal Abdel Nasser warned a massive anti-communist rally today...
Nasser renewed his attack on Premier Abdel Karim Kassem in a biting discussion of the Mosul rebellion before flag-waving student demonstrators at the presidential palace in Damascus...