Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DAMASCUS, Syria, March 12--President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic wooed Iraq's people today and denounced their premier as a man trying to spread a Communist reign of terror across the Arab world...
...United Arab Republic source in Damascus reported Iraqi planes strafed a Syrian village...
...steady, almost stealthy, exodus of 17,000 Jews from Communist Rumania to Israel in the past six months (TIME, Jan. 26) was bound to attract the notice of the Arab world. This week the largely ineffectual Arab League is scheduling a protest meeting; Nasser's Cairo and Damascus radios agonized day and night over "the new Zionist plot aided by the imperialists to bring in 3,000,000 Eastern European Jews" to "occupied Palestine...
...land, our Nasser-You are our Beloved, 0 Gamal," shrilled the marchers of Damascus as they streamed in thousands-girl scouts, militia, mullahs, mothers, cadets and kerchiefed workers-through Liberation Square and the Street Called Straight. Students shuffling under the eucalyptus leafed arches chanted in unison: "Neither internationalism nor Communism but Arab nationalism." At the municipal stadium a festive crowd roared as desert riders staged a camel race. Thus, as their hero arrived from Cairo this week with his guest and fellow neutralist, Tito of Yugoslavia, the people of Nasser's northern province (pop. 4,000,000) began celebrating...
...after Nasser's speech, Damascus' Communist newspaper Al Noor went out of business. Syrian Communist Boss Khaled Bakdash, the leading Communist in the Arab world, went underground. Nasser's Syrian proconsul, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, was more emphatic than Nasser. "The Communist Party has shown its real self," he said. "Its attitude is treason to the Arab cause and a dagger's stab directed by people who do not represent the real face of the Syrian region...