Word: syria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delegates received this heresy in stunned silence. Said one: "If anyone else had said what Nasser said today, Arabs would have branded him a traitor to the cause. But Nasser says it, and we accept it." Not everyone agreed. The Baathist regime in Syria persisted in calling for mass action against Israel. At a Damascus rally, Syrian Strongman Amin Hafez sneered at Nasser as "the self-proclaimed pioneer of Arab nationalism." Cried Hafez: "What is he waiting for? I went to the first Arab summit 18 months ago under the impression that the conference would lay down plans to liberate...
...visual, the principal object of attention was Israel. Syria claimed Israeli artillery fire had halted work on the Arab project to divert the headwaters of the Jordan, called for a unified Arab air strike to silence Israel's guns. Still angry about West Germany's recognition last month of Israel, Syria urged joint 'economic sanctions against the Bonn government, raised again the proposal that all members of the Arab League establish relations with East Germany instead. The Syrian delegate even demanded that Tunisia, whose President, Habib Bourguiba, had recommended negotiations instead of war with Israel, be expelled...
...action was taken, of course. Far from approving the air strikes against Israel, most Arab states warned Syria not to do anything to provoke the powerful Israeli army against them. Sanctions against West Germany were shelved, as was recognition of East Germany. Syria's case against Bourguiba met the coldest reception of all. Not even Nasser, whom the Tunisian President had accused of seeking control over all Arabs, was angry enough to consider throwing him out of the League...
...Similar headaches of "dual nationality" confront naturalized U.S. citizens born in Egypt, Greece, Iran, Poland, Rumania, Syria, Turkey, Yugoslavia and several other countries. Czechoslovakia refuses to recognize as U.S. citizens even the U.S.-born children of Czech parents. Such Americans should avoid Czechoslovakia on pain of arrest...
Elsewhere in Islam, some pillars of the faith are crumbling. In Algeria and Tunisia, few town dwellers bother to stop work or play for the five-time ritual of daily prayer. In the cities of Westernized Syria and Lebanon, a majority of Moslems drink, and the percentage of those who fast through Ramadan is on the decline. In much of Africa, as British Orientalist J. Spencer Trimingham points out, "Islam and the pagan underlayer have blended"-leading to a mixture of Allah-worship and animism that would scandalize the learned sheiks of Cairo...