Word: khoury
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Faris el Khouri, 84, voluble elder statesman of Syria who entered politics as a Deputy in the Ottoman Parliament in 1914 and despite repeated deportations for 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...