Word: syria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quito. Scheduled for reassignment to Ecuador, where the post is open: Christian Magelssen Ravndal, 57, born in Syria, son of a U.S. diplomat, in the Foreign Service since 1920, with duty in Germany, Canada, Sweden, Latin America. Big, rumpled Chris Ravndal, whose great forte is public relations-he likes to get out into the back country and put across the U.S. point of view-served his first ambassadorial assignment in Uruguay, is an authority on Latin American affairs. All the shifts left the State Department abuzz at week's end with one big unanswered question: Who replaces Allen...
...Syria and Lebanon, the Soviet Foreign Minister found himself under heavy pressure to issue a statement flatly backing the Arabs against Israel, but for reasons of its own, Soviet Russia is not willing to go so far right now. Unable to do this, Shepilov tried to soothe his hosts with sweeping offers of economic aid. The Arab disappointed reaction was one familiar to Shepilov's Western counterparts. Said Lebanese Foreign Minister Selim Lahoud: "I wish I could say I am more satisfied than I really...
...Arabs read it and blew up. They insisted that the council must strike the whole paragraph out: such words might commit the four Arab states to more than a military truce with the Israelis. Syria's Delegate Ahmed el Shu-kairy said flatly that to satisfy the Arabs "the establishment of Israel, its membership in the U.N. . . will have to be revoked...
...Minister Amer. an earnest, soft-spoken farmer boy from the Upper Nile, is the No. 2 man of Egypt's revolutionary regime, the closest confidant of Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser, and the leader who would assume command of the allied armies of Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen should war break out with Israel...
...Syria, Israel's northern and eastern neighbors insisted on qualifying their armistice pledge: if Israel carries out its oft-announced intention of diverting Jordan River waters to irrigate its coastal plain, they will go to war. In talking the three Arab states into joining in a flat commitment to restore the 1949 armistice conditions, Hammarskjold won timely help from Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, who, though he did not mention the Jordan waters, told the 24th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem last week: "Israel will not precipitate any major crisis...