Word: syria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shells of a new Soviet antiaircraft gun of the Syrian armed forces and had handed them over to Walter Snowdon, second secretary of the U.S. embassy in Damascus, who was expelled (TIME, Feb. 26). Washington denied the spy charges, but not very hard. Instead, the U.S. concentrated on protesting Syria's brutal treatment of Attassi. Before going to trial, he had been tortured by electricity, beaten, brainwashed and starved. U.S. officials were not allowed to see him in jail, he was not provided with legal counsel, and only carefully edited portions of his secret trial had been televised...
...headlong and disastrous plunge into socialism, Syria's Strongman Amin Hafez has resorted increasingly to that reliable diversion, the alleged U.S.-backed plot. Over the past month, 13 Syrians have been condemned to die on charges of collusion with the U.S. Last week Hafez presented another thriller that might not have impressed The Man from U.N.C.L.E. but went over big in Syria...
Snowdon, 46, who had served in Syria for three years, was promptly expelled. In the context of the Middle East power balance, the U.S. might well be interested in the weaponry of Syria's bathtub fleet. But Attassi hardly bolstered the Syrian government's case when he blurted out in court: "I was placed under torture by electricity as soon as I was arrested." Asked for com ment on Hafez' espionage drama, U.S. Ambassador Ridgway B. Knight declared: "I don't intend to get into a spitting match with a skunk"-surely one of the most...
...have come to expect Syria to change its government from day to day, but not TIME its facts from page to page. Though the count will change again before you can recheck your data, was it "18 governments in 15 years" or "15 government reshuffles in 18 years...
Fearing Israeli retaliation, tiny Lebanon last week tried to beg off. Its Premier, Hussein Oweini, suggested that the pumping station might be built in Syria instead of Lebanon. When the other Arab leaders wrathfully pointed out that the only possible Syrian location was so close to the frontier that it lay within range of Israeli guns, Oweini finally gave in. But, nervous at the risk of foreign politics on his soil, he rejected the proposal that troops from other Arab states be stationed in Lebanon for "protection" against the Israelis...