Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Damascus this week, at the Cathedral of Mariameyeh (the Virgin Mary), a short, portly man with rosy cheeks and a long white beard, in vestments of gold and silver brocade, received a golden staff topped with twin serpents-and thus became the 173rd Patriarch of Antioch and of All the East, the post revered by Eastern Orthodoxy as the oldest seat in Christendom.-Behind his election loomed a battle between Communism and the West...
...With the man who taught him to fly, R.A.F. Wing Commander Jock Dalgleish, beside him as copilot, the young King flew his twin-engined de Havilland Dove, with the royal Hashemite standard painted on its stabilizer, humming high above the Syrian desert at a modest 160 m.p.h. Suddenly the Damascus radio crackled a warning that the plane had no overflight clearance, demanded the identity of its crew and passengers. The King refused and turned the controls over to Dalgleish, defying an airport order to land at Damascus...
Furor in Amman. This lighthearted mood soon passed: the Bedouin-led Jordanian army, which had been poised outside the city in case trouble started in the King's absence, now wanted to march on Syria's Damascus. Troops swarmed in the streets of Amman, firing shots in the air, shouting: "Long live Hussein!" and "Hussein, we are your men!" Grateful citizens carried Hussein on their shoulders. Premier Samir Rifai informed the U.N. representative in Amman, Pier P. Spinelli, that the government intended to protest Syria's behavior to the U.N. Security Council. Jordan demanded an immediate meeting...
...Middle East affairs. Nuritdin Akramovich Mukhitdinov, 41, a Moslem from Tashkent who last year was promoted to the ruling Soviet Presidium, is its youngest member and only Moslem. Shortly after Mukhitdinov had four sessions with Nasser, Syrian Communist Chief Khaled Bakdash returned from exile in Eastern Europe to Damascus, and Mustafa Barzani, famed Kurdish rebel long harbored in Soviet exile, arrived back in Iraq. The Kurds (whose great leader in the time of the Crusades was Saladin) are a volatile minority of 5,000,000, spread across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran and southern Russia. Openly defying Nasser...
...left. Last month, in direct defiance of Nasser's order that his own National Front is the only political party that may operate in Syria, Syrian Communist Chief Khaled Bakdash published an article in Prague proclaiming, "No authority could disband our Communist Party," and ostentatiously returned to Damascus from Czechoslovakia to set up shop again. Since Nasser is not a man to tolerate such defiance, Cairo is guessing that the house-cleaning in Syria is not yet finished...