Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pocket Money. Last week the army split broke out into the open. Commander in Chief General Abdel Karim Zahreddin, a middle-of-the-roader, tried to get the two factions together in the middle-of-the-road town of Horns. Up from ancient Damascus came the conservative, high-ranking officers who supported General Zahreddin; down from Aleppo in the north came hotheaded, pro-Nasser junior officers of Colonel Louis Atassi. After a nightlong acrimonious debate, the officers emerged smiling into the daylight to announce complete agreement...
...paper, it seemed a victory for the Nasserites. Colonel Abdel Karim Nahlawi, a ringleader of the original coup, and six of his more conservative associates were denounced for "seeking personal power" and exiled to Switzerland (each was consoled with $3,000 in expense money from the national treasury). The Damascus high command promised to rule the country with Nasser socialism, minus Nasser, and agreed to a national plebiscite on the question of reunion with Egypt and an eventual return to what was described as "clean democracy...
...Aleppo, the pro-Nasser officers were greeted by jubilant crowds of soldiers, students, police and workers singing Nasser songs and shouting Nasser slogans. Huge new color pictures of Nasser billowed from office buildings and military headquarters. Nasser partisans seized control of Aleppo radio and practically declared war on Damascus by announcing that "free officers" were in control of northern Syria and demanding instant union with Egypt. "We belong heart and soul to Nasser!" cried the announcer. "We are his lion cubs! Long live Arab unity...
...Damascus one morning last week, the Syrian army moved with smooth precision. Up to government buildings rolled Soviet-built armored cars. Troops sealed off the airport, the radio station, the homes of Cabinet ministers. Borders with neighboring countries were closed, and airplanes arriving from outside were waved away. "It was almost a classical maneuver." said a Western observer admiringly. "But then the Syrians are more practiced in this than anyone else." Possibly they are; last week's military coup d'etat was the seventh in 13 years. It came six months to the day after the last...
...sailed for Europe in 1855, an outwardly demure 17-year-old determined to make her mark and spread her Calvinist faith. When she snagged the elderly Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein, she planned a honeymoon of New Testament grandeur. The couple retraced St. Paul's path to Damascus, camped out for a month in imitation of St. John the Baptist. But the prince collapsed and died before the honeymoon was over. Though his family accused Mary of murdering him by too many bedroom "fatigues," Mary inherited $4,000,000 in cash, several châteaux, and a few thousand...