Word: syria
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Beset by the possibility that the Iraqi antagonism to him might spread to his own unhappy northern province of Syria, Nasser traveled one day to an aluminum army hut hurriedly set up on the border between Syria and Lebanon. There, protected by tanks and antiaircraft guns, he met Lebanon's President Fuad Chehab for the first time. Reported gist of their agreement: Chehab would back Nasser in his dispute with Iraq if Nasser guaranteed that he would not try to incorporate Lebanon into his United Arab Republic...
...first reaction was to accuse Iraqi Communists of trying to split Arab brotherhood. The man who only last month insisted that there was no connection between the "friendly" Soviet Union and the local Communist troublemakers of Syria and Egypt now proclaimed from his Damascus balcony that "the Communist Party works for foreigners. Nobody in the Arab world will respond to them because they are agents of a foreign power." Next day, under the sting of Kassem's accusations of conspiracy, Nasser dropped all pretense of soldierly comradeship with Kassem and attacked him in person as a man who fights...
DAMASCUS, Syria, March 13--The Reds are converting Iraq into a base for operations in the Arab world, President Gamal Abdel Nasser warned a massive anti-communist rally today...
DAMASCUS, Syria, March 12--President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic wooed Iraq's people today and denounced their premier as a man trying to spread a Communist reign of terror across the Arab world...
Last week, with Tito at his side as he addressed an anniversary crowd in Cairo's tented Republic Square, Nasser announced in a two-hour speech that he had sent a personal letter to Khrushchev complaining about Communist skulduggery in Syria. He had just received Khrushchev's reply: Russia would stay out of "U.A.R. internal affairs" and "continue sincerely to support your struggle despite our ideological differences...