Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, near the Sea of Galilee, Syrian border guards opened fire on two Israeli farms. Speedily, U.N. head quarters protested to Damascus and snuffed out the trouble. Says...
...Damascus, the Syrian Baath Party, which bounced the Nasserites out of the government three weeks earlier, pushed ahead with its own mopping-up operations. Syria's Baathists fired three pro-Nasser ambassadors and several other top officials, and dishonorably discharged 40 army men suspected of pro-Egyptian leanings...
...waves blue with abuse of Syria's Baathist leaders. On his return, Nasser abruptly choked off the broadcast vituperation. He gave a place of honor to a visiting Syrian delegation during his Republic Square speech and conferred lengthily with the Syrians until their quiet return to Damascus at midweek. He had clearly decided that the moment was not yet ripe for a showdown with Baath leaders in both Iraq and Syria, especially since the projected tri-state United Arab Republic is still not formed. But the fight was not over, and if the past was any guide, it would...
...Cairo last week, Egypt's No. 2 man, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, stormed at a Syrian delegation: "Is Nasserism a crime in Syria now? If it is, how can we face the future together? If there are in Damascus people who consider Nasserism a crime, then how do you expect me to cooperate with them?" What set off Amer's flood of rhetorical questions was the threat posed to Nasser's dream of Arab unity by the gyrations of Syria's Baath Party leaders, headed by tall, lugubrious Premier Salah Bitar. The Baath leadership wants...
When rumors of a pro-Nasser army coup last week swept the volatile Syrian capital of Damascus, Baath acted. More than 100 army officers were dismissed or clapped in jail. In retaliation, all six Nasserite ministers handed in their resignations. Deputy Premier Nihad El-Kassem, who had led a Syrian unity delegation to Cairo last March and had sobbed with joy on Nasser's shoulder, cried, "We are giving up our responsibilities because we have not been given the means to carry them...