Word: syria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Duke might just as well write another piece called the Damascus Reel, for Syria, too, underwent a shakeup, quieter but no less significant. Behind the sudden shuffle of Middle Eastern leaders was a power struggle inside a strange new political force, the Baath (Renaissance) Party, which in little less than a year has turned from a shadowy, clandestine movement without popular support into a dynamic power challenging Gamal Abdel Nasser for leadership of the Arab world...
...avowed aim of Baath is to unite Iraq and Syria, which it already controls, and to add all other Arab countries to this union, through persuasion or subversion. Last week's tussles were caused partly by the clash of ambitions within the party, partly by differences over how quickly and radically the Baath aims should be pursued...
...last some modern contractors are going to clean up after Lawrence & Co. In Riyadh next week, government representatives from Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia will sign a $28 million contract with a British consortium-Alderton Construction Co., Ltd. and Martin Cowley, Ltd.-to renovate the German-designed railroad. A team of 200 engineers, working from air-conditioned railway cars, will direct an army of Arab laborers as they rebuild 55 stations and 1,900 bridges and culverts, lay 750,000 ties and 23,000 tons of rails at a planned rate of one mile...
...rulers left the balmy atmosphere of Bamako than their feud broke out all over again. In Rabat, where Hassan was greeted like a conquering hero by 1,000 warriors on horseback, the Moroccan government broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba and recalled its ambassadors to Egypt and Syria because of their "extremely hostile attitude." Some 350 Egyptian teachers in Morocco were told to pack up and return home. In Algiers the mood was equally ugly. Although both sides had agreed to end their exchange of virulent propaganda, Ben Bella warned Hassan in a two-hour harangue that the struggle would...
...five Cahaly brothers grow up in Damascus, Syria, "the oldest city in the world," Ralph boasts. Their parents worked in a silk mill. Mike, "10 or 12 years older" than 60-year-old Ralph, came to America in time to fight in World War I. Ralph arrived in 1920, at the age of 17, and found his first job in a Liggetts drug store. The brothers opened a small grocery store in 1922 on Oxford St. in Cambridge, but after six years made a fateful move. All of their four succeeding stores were on Mount Auburn St. Old graduates...