Word: syria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though there were some hints of coolness toward Cairo and toward the fanatical Baathists who dominate neighboring Syria, the junta gave no indication of whether it wishes to resume diplomatic relations with the U.S. or loosen Iraq's considerable ties with Moscow, which has given it 1,000 technicians and enough armament to replace the June war losses. The junta took over the property of 26 ousted officials and gave a clear warning against corruption by jailing the Thief of Baghdad. That action in itself persuaded many Iraqis that the new regime may be an improvement if it survives...
...column was surrounded by machine-gun-toting commandos, quickly withdrew when the fedayeen commander delivered a matter-of-fact announcement: "You have three minutes to decide whether you leave or die." The rest of the Arab world has taken up the fedayeen with nearly unanimous vigor. Iraq and Syria offer training programs for several thousand commandos. The Persian Gulf states, led by Kuwait, raise money for them through a 5% tax on the salaries of their tens of thousands of resident Palestinian workers, and a recent fund drive in Lebanon brought in $500,000 from Beirut alone. So much money...
Portugal, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somali Republic, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Republic, United Kingdom, United States, Upper Volta, Uruguay, Venezuela, South Viet Nam, Yugoslavia, Zambia...
Died. Major General Sir Robert Laycock, 60, debonair, dashing leader of England's World War II commandos; of a heart attack; in Wiseton, England. The storybook image of a daring British commando, the tall, blue-eyed Laycock led his raiders through Crete, Syria, Sicily and Salerno, executed his boldest raid in 1941, when he landed on the Libyan coast, tried to kidnap Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, lost 48 of his 50-man party, and escaped across the desert, living for six weeks on little else but berries and rain water...
...were joined by seven other nations-Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Somalia. And there was no telling how many more might quit. India was threatening to pull out; so was the Soviet Union. The U.S. was committed to competing-but some Negro athletes were certain to boycott on their own. With all that pressure, at week's end, crustaceous I.O.C. Chairman Avery Brundage reluctantly agreed to put the question of a second vote on South Africa up to his executive committee...