Word: latakia
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...midnight, when Latakia radio went off the air, the U.A.R.'s last Syrian stronghold had fallen to the rebels...
...somber, ragged sentences, he declared: "What happened today is more serious than Suez. Any division in national unity is much more serious than foreign aggression." To "straighten out the situation," as he put it in his broadcast, Nasser ordered his fleet and 2,000 paratroops to take seaport Latakia, started commandeering merchantmen to haul ground troops to Syria, which is seperated from Egypt by Jordan, Lebanon and Israel. Suddenly, Nasser changed his mind. He called off the attack just after the first 120 Egyptian paratroops landed. (They surrendered.) Explaining his decision, Nasser asked sadly: "Does Arab fight Arab? For whose...
...army corps to "maneuver" near the Syrian bor der. Last week patrols exchanged shots for 45 minutes across the frontier. At week's end, to add to the tension, Egypt announced that "basic elements" of its air, sea and naval forces had arrived at the port of Latakia to bolster Syrian defenses...
...flowing to Europe by other routes than Suez. The colonel is all for Nasser and all for the Soviets. Last week Washington confirmed news reports that Soviet arms have lately been arriving in "a steady flow" at the rate of two shiploads a week at the Syrian port of Latakia...
...native understanding that only power counts is what set him on his vicious trail of plunder, loot and robbery, brought him dubious fame and control of 18 villages-one for each wife-and wealth which he is sinking into Turkish gold and British sovereigns and real estate in Latakia, Damascus and Aleppo. Thus it is that, backed by 15 or 20 thousand rifles, he could proclaim himself 'god' and make the people believe...