Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle East's other protagonists were hesitant about taking any steps at all. Before the Salzburg summit, he prepared his ground skillfully by swinging through Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan and Syria. Accordingly, he will meet Ford not merely as Egypt's representative but, he said in Damascus, as the spokesman of all the Arab people...
...unexpected ways. One is the military equipment provided on a longterm, low-interest basis: Egypt lost as much as $1 billion in Soviet materiel in the Six-Day War; Syria's armor and air corps were so shattered by the 1973 war that the Russians had to send Damascus $2 billion more...
...President should be a Maronite Christian (which Franjieh is), while the Premier should be a Sunni Moslem (as Rifai is). Lebanese Moslems were furious at the appointment, nonetheless, because Rifai represents the army, whose officer corps is predominantly Christian. The Palestinians and even the neighboring Syrians were also angry. Damascus quickly dispatched its Foreign Minister to Beirut to express its displeasure...
Whiteley, 60, is an authority on class. The sinewy, white-haired track veteran trained Damascus, Tom Rolfe and Chieftain, three brilliant performers. Mounted on a pony, he escorts Ruffian to and from Belmont's barn No. 34 every morning at dawn for her daily workouts. Afterward, he soaks her front legs in a tub of ice water, then he and Groom Daniel Williams pack all four legs in damp clay to keep them cool. When he is not busy with Ruffian, Whiteley can usually be found working with another of his 19 horses...
...Paul was blasted from his horse and converted to Christianity by a bolt of lightning and a deep voice on the road to Damascus. In a more American epiphany, Hess was converted by the deep-throated roar of a motorcycle. Many middle-aged men take up cycling -as Hess did in 1965. Mostly what they get is kidney trouble, pavement burns and a chance to act out a few fantasies. As Hess tells it in Dear America, he got secular religion. The need to repair the machines he wrecked led him to welding and, finally, to working as a welder...