Word: syria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Egypt's demand that Britain evacuate the Nile Valley was still pending in U.N.'s Security Council. But on the strength of early speeches, super-nationalist Egyptians thought that their chief support would come from Syria's El Khoury and Russia's Gromyko...
Biggest Inch. The Trans-Arabian Pipe Line Co. acquired the complete right-of-way for its projected 1,030-mile pipeline from the Abqaiq field in Saudi Arabia through Trans-Jordan, Syria and Lebanon to the Mediterranean port of Sidon (TIME, March 24). When completed by 1949, the 30-to-31-inch line - world's biggest - will eliminate the present 3,650-mile tanker haul from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. Trans-Arabian, affiliate of the Arabian-American Oil Co., will spend $125 million on construction, expects that the line will initially carry some 300,000 barrels...
...votes against this proposal," rasped Council President El Khoury of Syria last week, "was cast by a permanent member. . . . Therefore, he frustrated the proposal." This time, El Khoury was not talking about the Russians, who have cast 18 vetoes. He meant Alexandre Parodi, delegate of France, whose only previous veto had been a joint affair with Andrei Gromyko more than a year ago. Last week, on his own, Parodi had parodied Gromyko...
France quickly won the support of Australian delegate Col. W. R. Hodgson, who said he would vote for a small "neutral commission, but suggested that it be limited to the six non-permanent members of the Council--Australia, Colombia, Brazil, Syria, Poland, and Belgium...
Fourteen people died in the leaping fire on the desert not far from the river Euphrates, near Meyadine, in Syria. Arabs helped Stewardess Bray and 21 other survivors of the wreck of the Pan American World Airways Eclipse, a four-motored Constellation that had left Karachi, India, a few hours before, bound for La-Guardia Field, New York...