Word: pro-western
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...issue was bluntly stated. "The Russians give us threats and the Americans give us money. If you were Premier, which would you take?" asked amiable, water-pipe-smoking Premier Sami Solh. The opposition, headed by former Premier Abdullah el Yafi, heavily attacked Solh's pro-Western policies, and was backed by Egypt and Syria in efforts ranging from plain money (not so plentiful as it used to be) to attempted riots. The U.S., making little effort to disguise its support for Solh, just a day before elections flew in four planeloads of jeeps and recoilless rifles as the first...
...Feisal II, would ask him to try again, and Nuri would have a chance to form a new government, with a widened Cabinet. In office or out, the adroit, 68-year-old Nuri is the senior Arab statesman of the Middle East, and the Middle East's strongest pro-Western statesman...
Peaceful, pro-Western Lebanon, where Americans usually send their dependents when disorders occur in other parts of the Middle East, rang with the sound of gunfire last week. With elections only a week off, the neutralists and leftists felt that they were getting nowhere by orthodox politicking, and ordered a general strike. They demanded the resignation of Premier Sami Solh's government which recently approved the Eisenhower Doctrine. At the end of sporadic fighting, seven rioters were killed, 70 wounded, including onetime Premier Saeb Salam, and 341 arrested. Police captured one demonstrator armed with a Czech-made automatic pistol...
...Arab world, and Communist-infiltrated to a degree that Egypt is not, Syria is finding itself unpopular on every one of its borders. The Syrians dislike the Turks to the north only a little less than they hate the Israelis on the south. They quarrel bitterly with the pro-Western Iraqis on their east. And last week, after Syria had glumly withdrawn its 4,000 troops from Jordan, the Syrian army issued an angry statement accusing the Jordanians of having at one point in last April's crisis requested "three Iraqi divisions, placed at the frontier, aiming to attack...
...policy in the Middle East, acted. At week's end 35 Shaabist Deputies resigned from Syria's 132-man Parliament, and 25 sympathizers were expected to follow. The middle-class Shaab (People's) Party comes closer than any other important group in the country to being pro-Western, even though its campaign propaganda talks as loudly about "positive neutrality" as anyone else. The resignations may bring on a general election, but there is no evidence that in such an election, the ruling clique of leftist politicians and army nationalists would lose...