Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul was converted while riding on the road to Damascus by a sudden vision of the Risen Christ, who ap peared to him in the form of a blinding light that struck him to the ground...
...Accra, Algiers, Amsterdam, Bagdad, Bamako, Brussels, Colombo, Conakry, Copenhagen, Damascus, Djakarta, Helsinki, Kabul, Karachi, London, New Delhi, Nicosia, Paris, Rabat, Rangoon, Rome, Stockholm, Teheran, Tunis and Vienna...
Early one morning pro-Jadid troops and armored units rolled up Damascus' fashionable Abu Rummana Street, and began blasting away at Hafez' home and the tough desert troops guarding it. For hours the battle raged-interrupted only by one brief pause when the rebels permitted Hafez' wife and a wounded daughter to escape. Outmanned and outgunned, the defenders were finally whittled down to three men, who came out with hands up and holding a white flag. They were gunned down in their tracks, and a placard hung on the front of the demolished home: "This...
Died. Metropolitan Antony Bashir, 67, Archbishop of the 110,000-member Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church of New York and North America, a vigorous anti-Communist who in 1958, while in Damascus for the election of a new Patriarch, exposed a Soviet plot to seat its own Communist-oriented candidate by bribing some delegates with cash, gifts and free trips to Moscow, then led the fight to elect non-Red Patriarch Theodosius VI; of cancer; in Boston...
...arrives suitably sweaty and distraught, stowed away in a packing case with a power lathe and a corpse. Moments later, her fabulous eye makeup intact, she rackets off to tantalize Finch, soon dons bikini-brief work clothes that scandalize his dedicated kibbutzniks. Her subsequent search leads to Haifa, Damascus, and other Levantine fun spots. Though she occasionally sounds the depths of a woman's revenge, Sophia sticks mainly to Byzantine surface effects. As the farewell gesture of a hollow drama that might have been something more, the young Jewish nation rather incidentally survives the first Arab onslaught-saved...