Word: syria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMMAN, Jordan, Nov. 11--Premier Samir Rifai told a cheering emergency session of Parliament last night Jordan will accuse Syria of an act of aggression for intercepting King Hussein's vacation-bound plane. Thunderous applause greeted his announcement that the government would bring the case before the U.N. Security Council and would ask Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to take quick measures for a debate...
...national holiday was declared to celebrate the adventurous King's escape from what he charged was an attempt to kidnap or kill him in a flight over Syria Monday. Hussein, who celebrates his 24th birthday Friday, emerged as a daring Moslem hero for defying the Syrian MIG fighters and making a successful getaway...
Some officials suggested President Nasser's United Arab Republic--of which Syria is a province--attempted to kidnap the pro-Western King and force him to abdicate in favor of a regime friendly to the U.A.R...
...that Nasser is reluctant to take over Jordan because he would then be burdened by half a million Palestine refugees as well as by the economic load now borne by the U.S. They point out that Nasser recently shut down the "Jordan People's Radio." which from neighboring Syria used to shriek daily for Hussein's assassination. But the revolution in neighboring Iraq showed that those who rise in Nasser's flame often act in ways he may not have intended: a man who sows trouble so indiscriminately reaps some wild harvests...
Several hundred miles to the southeast, the British began evacuating Jordan. After embarking six shiploads of troops at Jordan's Red Sea port of Aqaba, the British started a final airlift of 2,000 men to Cyprus. To do so, they had to overfly Nasser's Syria. But with Nasser's consent, Norway's General Odd Bull posted U.N. supervisory teams at Syrian airport control towers for the estimated five days the airlift would take...