Word: syria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alone." Who extended the invitation, how far the Russians mean to go in accepting it, and how irreversible the present course is, remain to be seen. In Cairo, where he hustled off early last week to ease his ulcer and talk to Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly, a moderate rightist but also something of a weakling, vehemently denied that his country was turning Communist. The U.S., said El Kuwatly, "should leave us alone." But El Kuwatly's own attempt to keep a check on the rise of the pro-Soviet wing...
...Communist, General Bizri took evasive action. "If you call every man who loves his country a Communist, then I am a Communist." Defense Minister Khaled el Azm, who has just concluded a $100 million military-aid deal with the Soviet Union (TIME, Aug. 19), stridently insisted that Syria's policy was one of "positive neutrality," sententiously added: "We are at the outer edge of that policy-do not force us to go beyond...
Calluses of Conscience. The most powerful man in Syria was saying nothing whatsoever. He is gaunt, 43-year-old Akram...
Hourani got his start in Syrian politics ten years ago as a member of a vehemently anti-Communist right-wing political party. In Syria's brief and lackluster 1948 campaign against the Palestine Jews, he served as a volunteer-and improved the hour by smuggling arms intended for the front to his personal, home-town political organization in Hama...
...dedicated Communist; he is more probably for Hourani and the main chance. They also think that Serraj (who used to talk daily on the phone with Nasser) believes that he is using rather than being used by the Communists. Hourani burns with the ambition of building a "Greater Syria," which, if achieved, would topple Iraq's able, pro-Western leader Nuri asSaid, take oil-rich Iraq out of the Baghdad Pact and eventually unify Iraq, Syria and perhaps Lebanon in one vast Arab State under Hourani...