Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party were asked to replace them, they refused. Desperate President Koudsi eagerly offered to unite Syria with the new revolutionary government of Iraq but received no official reply from Baghdad. Schools were closed to prevent student demonstrations against the government, and tanks and armored cars patrolled the streets of Damascus...
...southern front command, of being a top conspirator and ordered him sent out of the country as military attaché to Jordan. Hariri refused to go, and the entire southern command backed him up. An armored column moved out from the Badani mili tary camp and entered Damascus, where the tanks patrolling the streets quickly joined the rebels. Scarcely a shot was fired as Syria changed its allegiance. Tempers were so cool that President Koudsi was allowed to remain at home with his family. Premier Khaled El-Azm. who lived beside the Turkish embassy, simply slipped next door...
Last week the officers were up to their old tricks again. Incensed by a Damascus decree stripping them of their army status, the group arranged a dramatic rendezvous in Turkey, then quietly crossed the frontier and made for their old barracks inside Syria. Greeted joyously by some of their former comrades in arms, Nahlawi's men issued a public demand that their discharges be canceled, and that a new general staff to their liking be put in power. To confuse things, the rebellious soldiers insisted on a plebiscite to decide on closer relations with Nasser's Egypt. Otherwise...
...anvil," and seizes the seaward-sighted cannon of Aqaba from the rear. Stunned, the Turkish garrison surrenders. Startled, General Allenby (Hawkins) offers the young hothead guns and gold, and before long Lawrence and his Arabs are blowing up Turkish trains and garrisons from Medina to Damascus. Then Allenby strikes north from Aqaba, and Lawrence leads 3,000 tribesmen in triumph to Damascus...
Barred from their regular chamber by the army, the Deputies assembled on rows of wicker chairs in El-Azm's rambling Damascus mansion, voted to restore the liberal 1950 constitution with a few amendments. Their 156-10-1 choice for Premier was big (6 ft.), bespectacled El-Azm. Convinced that Parliament would steer an even course, the army quietly assented to the changes...