Word: khoury
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less than fruitful week for the U.N. At one point during the Political Committee's debate, as a Byelorussian delegate kept sledgehammering away on a procedural point, Fayez El-Khouri of Syria sighed: "We cannot all withstand the pressure of these meetings. If the representative of Byelorussia has a strong nervous and physical system, I confess that for my part I sometimes need rest, moral and spiritual rest...
...week's end even some of Zaim's followers were wondering what the domestic implications were. For a militant putschist, Zaim was getting off to a slow start. First he tried to get Faris el-Khouri, former Premier and Syria's delegate to the United Nations, to form a cabinet. When El Khouri refused, Zaim dissolved parliament and appointed himself temporary Premier at the head of a cabinet of "technicians." Most Syrians, sipping coffee in the bazaars and smoking their hubble-bubble pipes, took hardly any notice of the change in government. In their 4,000-year...
Suddenly Vishinsky noticed that Syria's white-thatched Paris el Khouri had fallen asleep. Said Vishinsky with heavy sarcasm: "I wish the distinguished Syrian delegate the best of health. I beg his pardon for disturbing him. I want him to hear me. I hope he does hear me. I do not know what measures will have to be taken in order to make sure that he will hear me . . ." El Khouri finally woke up. What Vishinsky had wanted him to hear was hardly worth...