Word: syria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dictator of Syria, Adib Shishekly always feared assassination and took infinite pains to avoid it. He carried one gun in a shoulder holster, kept another in his desk drawer. In Damascus he maintained four homes besides his official palace, slipped from one to the other for a meal or a night's sleep...
...enemies were legion, but none were so bitter as the tribesmen of the Djebel Druze, a rugged group of hills in southern Syria, where in 1954 revolt erupted after years of discontent. Shishekly, in a four-week campaign, crushed the Druzes, hammering their mountain strongholds with tanks, planes and artillery. The powerful Druze clan of the Ghazali took some of the heaviest casualties...
...week's end the Brazilian police arrested two men and were searching for a third, who is the prime murder suspect. No one in Syria was surprised to learn that the man wanted is a young Druze tribesman and a member of the Ghazali clan named Nawaf Abu Ghazali. He also had emigrated to Brazil and waited a decade to avenge the savage reprisals against his people almost 10,000 miles away in the Djebel Druze...
Lebanon's President-elect Charles Helou dragged his feet on diverting the Hasbani River, pointing out that his small, 8,000-man army was no match for Israel. Lebanon, Syria and Jordan were ready to increase their armed forces by 30%, as demanded by Egypt's General Ali Amer, commander in chief of the projected Arab army, but complained that they could not pay for it alone. Iraq's Abdul Salam proposed that Amer be authorized to move Arab forces anywhere in Arab territories during a time of danger. This started a wrangle in which it became...
Fulfillment. Foot survived to chart (on camel back) the Wadi Araba Desert between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea, was blown out of a staff car on his way to demand the surrender of a Vichy French garrison in Syria, got stabbed in the back by an anti-British terrorist in Nigeria. He helped Nigerian politicians draft their constitution, and headed Jamaica's march to stability and independence. As for his last and most frustrating assignment, he says wryly that "anyone who understood Cyprus had been misinformed." Whatever the fate of that unhappy nation, Sir Hugh looks back...