Word: sidon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost evenly divided between Moslem and Christian groups, the nightmare of this small nation is the possibility of a war of religion. The Parliament usually tries to look the other way, but the Kobeyat feuding is only the most conspicuous of several recent incidents: a religious murder in Sidon. a lynching in Tripoli. "The time has come for the erection of gallows,'' said Interior Minister Raymond Edde, introducing a bill making capital punishment mandatory for "premeditated murder.'' Last week, made an issue of confidence by Premier Rashid Karami, the bill was passed, 28-3. No longer...
Little Lebanon, smaller than Connecticut, likes to think of itself as a Switzerland, peacefully balancing its internal factions, staying out of trouble and making money. Today, as in the time when the Phoenicians pushed their biremes seaward from Tyre and Sidon, the business of Lebanon remains business. Rich in universities, nightclubs, banks and commerce, Lebanon sought to sustain itself as officially half Christian and half Moslem, but it has found the delicate cultural, commercial and political balances increasingly harder under the thrusting forces of East-West rivalry and the Arab surge toward unity...
...Lebanese government and good friend of Nasser's, brought a new weapon into the negotiations: a tax decree that abrogated the tax exemption granted I.P.C. (retroactive five years) as well as the exemption for the American-owned Tapline, which carries oil from the Saudi Arabian fields to Sidon. Salam slapped a $13 million tax bill on I.P.C., gave the company until Sept. 29 to pay, under the threat of a heavy fine. Salam had hoped to play off Tapline against I.P.C., offered it a deal. But Tap-line sided with I.P.C., argued that a contract is a contract, that...
...Communists grab Iran, they will get an asset far more valuable than Korea. Through Iran lie Russia's paths to the rest of the Middle East oil: the great fields of Iraq and Arabia, and the Bahrein-Sidon, Kirkuk-Haifa and Kirkuk-Tripoli pipelines (see map). With U.S. encouragement, Western Europe depends more & more on Middle East rather than Western Hemisphere oil. This shift is economically and strategically sensible, provided that the Western powers intend to defend the Middle East. Fact is, however, that they show no serious sign of such an intention. Turkey is the only country...
Short Cut. This week, Arabian oil began filling the 13 huge storage tanks (capacity 188,000 barrels each) at Sidon. Early next month, when the pipeline and storage tanks are completely filled with 7,000,000 barrels of oil (more than all the oil pumped daily from all U.S. wells), tankers will begin loading at Sidon to take the oil to the thirsty refineries of the fighting West...