Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leader of Pan-Arabism. He pays a $55 million annual subsidy to Egypt and, before Hussein cracked down on the fedayeen, he gave funds to Jordan as well, for the fight against Israel. Last fall, after General Hafez Assad seized power in Syria, Gaddafi insolently flew into Damascus to look him over. Apparently Gaddafi approved; he left Assad a $10 million check...
Othman's Shirt. To history-minded Arabs, the shirt-waving guerrillas recalled a major battle in Islamic history. Thirteen centuries ago, a Damascus governor named Mu'awiya, vowing to avenge the murder of the Caliph Othman, carried Othman's bloody shirt as a battle flag. Actually, Mu'awiya hoped to make himself Caliph. Ever since, Arabs have described self-aggrandizement in the guise of vengeance as "waving the shirt of Othman." As Hussein's neighbors leaped to the guerrillas' defense last week with words-but little else-that is what they seemed...
...that the division was ever formidable, at least in terms of size. The Arab League's Boycott-Israel Office, headquartered in Damascus, has 18 branches and a staff of 200. Israel's counterforce, operating on $15,000 a year, had a staff of seven at the height of its activity. At the end it consisted only of Arazi and a deputy, though it also received assistance from Jewish agencies round the world...
...reassure the Arabs while making moves toward Israel, the Soviets have been not only delivering guns but also buttering up politicians from Cairo to Damascus. The Soviet-Egypt treaty of friendship, which will be formally signed this week, has been followed by lesser concordats elsewhere. One was signed in Damascus last week, obliging the Russians to provide more economic aid for Syria. In Baghdad, a protocol was signed pledging Russian aid in developing Iraq's North Rumaila oilfields and improving irrigation on the Euphrates River...
Less than a year ago, Kanj, 55, was tried in absentia by a Syrian court for collaboration with Israel and sentenced to 18 months in prison. He is said to have told his interrogators that the Damascus government had recently begun putting pressure on members of his family still living in Syria. His brother is the military commander of the Damascus area, a top post in the Syrian army...