Word: syria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sent his annual report to Congress on U.S. participation in the U.N., credited the world organization with "solid achievements" during 1957. After Russia charged that the U.S. was urging Turkey to attack Syria, wrote the President, the U.N. Assembly's open discussion "demonstrated to the world that Syria and the Soviet Union had manufactured the 'crisis' as a propaganda maneuver against the West...
...urgent problem of Lebanon had indeed been aggravated by the shrill symphony of hate orchestrated from Radio Cairo, and the rebels had been mischievously bolstered by arms and men smuggled in from Nasser's Syria, but the solution to most of Lebanon's troubles was still to be found inside its own border...
...third of Syria's wool exports (ten times last year's amount) and more than half of the cotton crop will go this year to the Soviet bloc. Although Syrian Communist Boss Khaled Bakdash fled to Moscow when the union was proclaimed, the Communist newspaper Al Noor still publishes the Red line. And Damascus Radio echoes it. Sample broadcast about Lebanon: "The U.S. has taken off the fancy dress hiding her real identity as a slippery snake trying to emit poison, suck blood and eat human flesh...
Rebuke from Cairo. To consolidate his own authority in Syria, Nasser has dispatched more than 200 civilian officials and several thousand Egyptian troops into Syria, stationing at least one Egyptian officer with every Syrian army company. Playing his proconsuls against each other. Nasser has split authority in Syria among 1) Old Politicos Akram Hourani and Sabri el Assali, Vice Presidents of the U.A.R.; 2) Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, now Interior Minister, press czar, and boss of a police state intelligence network; 3) Mahmoud Riad, onetime Egyptian army colonel and Ambassador to Syria, who is Nasser's shadow in Damascus...
Died. Alexander III, 89, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and of All the East, longtime (since 1931) head of the Greek Orthodox community in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and part of Turkey, spiritual leader of thousands who have migrated from the Middle East to the U.S. and Latin America; in Damascus...