Word: syria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...area, sending legions of comrade plenipotentiaries armed with aid, or ready to aid with arms. Today, from the great shell of the Aswan High Dam rising from the Egyptian Nile to T-54 tanks rumbling down the boulevards of Baghdad, with swarms of MIG jets on patrol over Syria or strafing Royalist rebels in Yemen, the Soviet presence in the Middle East is evident where it had never been known before...
Measuring Up. Moscow has pumped into-or promised-the Middle East nations some $1.4 billion in economic aid since the ruble offensive began (v. some $3 billion in U.S. aid to the same nations since 1945). Another $1 billion has gone into equipping the armies of Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Predictably, it is in these four nations that the Soviets have directed the great bulk of their Middle Eastern economic aid as well. Among their notable aid successes-and failures-in the four...
...SYRIA accounted for an influx of $40 million in Syrian pounds, of which only $6,000,000 was officially sanctioned to finance imports. The remaining millions are flight capital, set in motion by the resignation of Syria's No. 2 man, General Mohammed Omran, making another coup in coup-prone Syria (15 in the past 18 years) more likely. Syria's announcement of its intention to nationalize all oil resources added to the business community's edginess...
...worst outbreaks of Israeli-Arab violence since the 1956 Sinai-Suez crisis, and it brought the U.N. Security Council into emergency session. What the council heard about seemed to be a battle of inches. Accusing Israel of "wanton aggression," Syria's U.N. Ambassador Rafik Asha charged that the gravel road on which the Israeli patrol had been traveling was 50 yards inside the Syrian border. Not so, replied Israeli Ambassador Michael Comay angrily: according to a 1962 U.N. survey, the road is seven yards from the border, and on the Israeli side...
...prelates contributed to the discussion. Speaking for his fellow Arab Christians. Ignace Cardinal Tappouni of Syria doggedly argued that the declaration was inopportune; his implication was that Moslem rulers in the Middle East would see it as Vatican recognition of Israel, an interpretation that even the revised draft takes pains to dispel. There were smiles and titters when Sicily's Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini rose to charge that it was too kind to the Jews, who instead should be urged to abandon their offensive practices against Christians. By the end of the debate, however, most observers felt that the final...