Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolutionary activity fought for Syrian independence, served Syria four times as Premier, between 1944 and 1955, and headed his country's delegation to the United Nations, where he was Security Council president, led the bitter Arab opposition to an independent, Zionist Israel; after a long illness; in Damascus...
...bridges along the Turkish-held Hejaz Railway (and mourned he had not made it 80), an Englishman hailed by the Arabs as El Aurens, who in 2½ years had led the revolt in the desert from the Red Sea port of Jidda to the gates of Damascus. Then, with his chosen prophet, Emir Feisal, about to be crowned king of Syria, Lawrence disappeared as suddenly as he came, in what seemed a superb gesture of modesty and abdication...
Though tanks still peered through the shrubbery in downtown Damascus, Syria was calm. After Gamal Abdel Nasser had resigned himself to Syria's breakaway from the United Arab Republic ("May Allah help beloved Syria"), the world's nations hastened to welcome the newly independent state. In a blaze of flashbulbs and official smiles, U.S. Consul General Ridgway B. Knight drove up to the rose-walled Foreign Office in Damascus last week and presented a note extending formal recognition. Three days earlier, the new regime, coolly and without publicity, accepted Soviet recognition. Said one longtime Western observer: "This...
...years had the Middle East seen so quick and clean a coup. Streaking, north from barracks outside Damascus, a slim rebel force of 20 tanks seized the capital at dawn. There were no mob scenes, no assassinations and almost no gunfire. When they tuned into Damascus radio at breakfast, Syrians learned that they had been "liberated" from the United Arab Republic, of which their country had been an uneasy part for nearly four years. In northern Syria, Aleppo radio went dead in the midst of the anthem, Beloved Nasser, Lover of Egypt and Syria -returning ten minutes later with...
Nachat Martini graduated from Cairo University and practiced and taught law in Damascus before emigrating to France during World War II. Fascinated by the sleazy world of the Place Pigalle, Martini tried to carve himself a slice at war's end but was scared off by the swaggering Corsican gangsters of Pierre Cue, then King of the Place Pigalle. Martini tried his luck in the U.S. in 1947, opening a nightclub off Times Square called the French Casino...