Word: salah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aleppo!" In the U.N., Syrian Foreign Minister Salah el Bitar, sounding more than ever like a Soviet ventriloquist's dummy, demanded a full-scale debate on "the threat to Syria's security." Said he: "The Turkish troops have apparently been given a slogan, 'To Aleppo!', which they now publicly repeat." Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko delightedly expanded the charge: "Apparently," said he, "the intention of the U.S.A. is to employ in Syria the method it resorted to in suppressing the independence of Guatemala." U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge promptly welcomed "an opportunity for a full airing...
...assassination. According to the Information Ministry, a group of officers, ''cashiered for reasons connected with their military conduct" in last November's Anglo-French-Israeli invasion, planned to break in on a Cabinet meeting, bump off everybody, and install a civilian regime headed by Mohammed Salah el Din, 55, Foreign Minister in the last Wafdist government, before Nasser's 1952 revolution...
Long one of Egypt's most popular political figures, Salah el Din became something of a national hero by leading the successful drive in 1951 for Egypt's abrogation of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty. As a leading Cairo lawyer, he has never concealed his distaste for the Nasser regime; he spoke out before the National Bar Association in 1954 for a return to democratic processes, and was duly denounced by Nasser for "treachery." But from his jail cell he denied that he had endorsed any plot on Nasser's life. The government said that all 14 "traitors...
...week's end no tanks had yet attacked the capital, and, in open defiance of Leftist Serraj, Foreign Minister Salah Bitar announced that he had asked ex-Congressman James Richards, Ike's special ambassador to the Middle East, to visit Damascus to explain the advantages of the Eisenhower Doctrine. At this point, Colonel Serraj no longer walked like the undisputed king of the jungle...
...army cut off 90% of Iraq's oil output for an estimated six months, at a cost in royalties lost to the Iraq treasury of about $80 million. The Syrians snapped right back at Iraq for keeping its ties with Britain. At one table-pounding session, Foreign Minister Salah el Bitar, another Syrian just back from Moscow, charged that Iraq was Britain's and Israel's tool. An Iraqi retorted: "That's better than being a Communist...