Word: syria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Syria itself there was now no visible opposition to Nasser's rule (the Communists and all other parties are banned), economic strains were being felt. Syrian foreign exchange holdings had shrunk in half in the merger's first year. Nasser's determination to force Syria's free-enterprise economy into Egypt's state socialist mold had sent private capital into flight, and threatened to make Syria's hard pound almost as soft as Egypt's. It had been a disastrous year for Syria's wheat and barley crops. But Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...dangerous to tolerate for either Turkey or Greece, whose amity is precarious at best, had only been painfully re-created after the killings and mass transfers of their two populations after World War I. The Turks, now threatened on their southern flank by Nasser's annexation of Syria and by Communist infiltration in Iraq, needed friendship with Greece In order to secure their western flank. The Greeks, after winning little sympathy In NATO, had failed to get a strong U.N. resolution on Cyprus last December. This apparently was the turning point: on the familiar cry of colonialism, the Greeks...
...overall sales, West Germany's peaceful invasion force -some 500 German businessmen operate out of Cairo alone -has yet to catch up with Britain and the U.S. But in three lucrative markets-Iran, Syria and Greece-West Germany outsells any other nation. In Egypt and Israel the West Germans are now No. 2 in sales...
...Afro-Asian self-determination cast a harsh glare on the turgid cataract of independence and democracy, per se, as they sink their roots ever deeper into the rich brown soil of the ancient Fertile Crescent, that strife-ridden slice of the mordacious Middle East which includes the Bedouins of Syria, the Riffs of Jordan, the fiercely patriotic people of brave little Israel, the Nomads of the Saudi-Arabian wastelands, the oil-rich sheiks of Kuwait and the curvaceous cuties of the Cairo Casbah, not to mention the nubile Nubians of the nether Nile, the nemesis of Nasser nears the nadir...
...Nasser now seems to be privately alert to entrapment by Communists, there are some who suspect his motives. Israeli intelligence insists that Communist activities, at least in Egypt and Syria, are not nearly so serious as they have been made to seem, that in fact Nasser is using the Communist threat as 1) an excuse to put down honest Syrian disillusionment at the way the United Arab Republic is working out, and 2) a bogy to frighten Westerners so they will make...