Word: syria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreement, giving hard-pressed Colonel Nasser a financial windfall that might ease his heavy dependence on Moscow, was perhaps one result of the Communist offensive against Nasser in Syria and Iraq that the Russians may not have expected. Nasser has belatedly begun to move against the Communists. He has arrested several hundred of them in Syria and Egypt, including some Egyptian newsmen, though this news has significantly not appeared in the Egyptian press...
...deterrent power, tend to back down. The U.S. also ordered air cover for British airborne landings in Jordan. But the revolt in Iraq-and the U.S. intelligence failure to anticipate it-left the U.S. no friendly government to support, no rallying point for action. Iraq and neighboring Syria are now coiled up in a squabble between Nasserism and Communism in what might make Dulles' first big test of 1959. Year's score in the Middle East: a net loss that could have been much worse...
...fact that by firmness at Quemoy and the prompt dispatch of marines and soldiers to Lebanon, it had prevented dramatic deterioration of the international position of the U.S. And it was a U.S. victory of sorts that Gamal Abdel Nasser, who began 1958 by triumphantly merging Egypt and Syria into the United Arab Republic, found himself at year's end at last aware that his Communist ally was a concealed enemy...
...Communists he brought into the Middle East three years ago are now fighting him and sabotaging Arab nationalism in Syria. They "opposed the union of Syria and Egypt because they thought it would destroy their opportunities," he told the crowd at Port Said. "Some" of their members, he went on, even called for "disunity...
...Nasser had decided at last that he was in jeopardy from the Communists, he was moving cautiously. At week's end there were many rumors but little evidence of Communist arrests in Syria. He carefully made no mention at all of the even touchier situation created by the Communists in Iraq. Nasser's regime signed a contract with a Soviet delegation in Cairo for the building of Nasser's Aswan high dam, and Nasser's propagandists, covering the boss's anxious retreat, put out the naive-sounding line that Arabs must distinguish sharply between...