Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Louisville will forget its open-housing problems for two hysterical minutes Saturday, as Mrs. Edith Bancroft's Damascus attempts to turn back 10 to 13 rivals in the 93rd running of the Kentucky Derby...
Willie Shoemaker, looking for his fourth Derby victory in 15 attempts will be aboard Damascus...
...Secretary of the Air Force, put three large aircraft at the disposal of 192 MRA people and flew them by a circuitous route from Manila to Switzerland. They were presenting a play called The Vanishing Island to Asians and Africans. When part of the cast felt like flying to Damascus and Amman, which were not on the schedule, the crews of the plans got angry and refused to fly them there...
...Under Premier David Ben-Gurion, the nation decided that its security was best assured by armored units and paratroops capable of striking deep into enemy territory. The army is thus divided into three regional commands, and some of its officers believe that the northern command alone could sweep to Damascus in three days...
...Propping. Though Jadid & Co. despise Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser for his "softness" and seek by their export of terror to take over his leadership, Syria has nonetheless been forced to cooperate with him. But even Egypt, long the revolutionary center of the Middle East, feels nervous about Damascus' rabid adventurism. In order to prevent a major war from growing out of Syria's madness, Nasser signed a mutual defense pact with Syria last November that demands consultation before any major attack on another country. The fact is that Syria's military is too weak...