Word: syria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long live Gamal, founder of Arab union!" roared the Cairo Deputies of the first leader to make a start toward the ancient dream of Arab brotherhood since Saladin united his Saracen hosts against the Crusaders in 1174. In Syria's Damascus the celebration was wilder. Bedouins whirled through the Arab sword dance. Soviet-made helicopters swooped overhead, 50,000 citizens paraded with their "Arab Unity" banners past the Parliament. Dark-suited legislators, who had just voted themselves and aging President Kuwatly out of jobs, produced guns from somewhere and blazed away into the sky in celebration...
Kuwatly's nationalists, who had always favored federation, suddenly realized that federation would still leave the way clear for Khaled el Azm to become President of Syria, began pressing Nasser for an outright merger. Nasser, who not only shared their misgivings but saw a chance to regain the Arab world leadership lost by his ignominious Sinai defeat at the hands of Israel, set one big condition. He demanded that the Syrians agree to dissolve all parties in the merger, and accept a single Nasserite National Union such as he has formed in Egypt. Kuwatly and other nationalists agreed...
...before, e.g., when he nationalized the Suez Canal after the U.S. rebuffed his bid for Aswan Dam aid, Nasser had counterpunched. But it was too early to tell whether this time he had counterpunched at the Western sponsors of the Baghdad Pact or the Soviet sponsors of subversion in Syria-or both...
...Jewish pioneer settlement to guard against marauding Arabs, Moshe Dayan has been a fighting man. He went to jail in 1939 for fighting in the Jewish underground against the British; two years later he lost his left eye fighting for the British against the Vichy French in Syria. In the Palestine war of 1948-49, Colonel Dayan's motorized Israeli units captured Lydda and Ramie, cleared the Negev desert. In 1953 Dayan became chief of staff of Israel's armed forces, plotted the brilliant blitzkrieg in which Israel's army overran the Sinai peninsula and chewed...
...stop it. This week, as Ceylon marks the tenth anniversary of its independence from Britain, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree is flying out to check for himself reports that the Indian Ocean island off the southeast coast of India is well on the way to becoming another Syria...