Word: syria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lowered Flags. There was a more material reason for the electrician to abstain from filial murder: Arab unity has been loudly trumpeted by Egypt, Syria and Iraq, but it has hardly been consummated. On the surface, everything seemed to be proceeding according to plan. Syria and Iraq lowered their national flags and raised instead the official three-star banner of Gamal Abdel Nasser's United Arab Republic. Ministers raced from capital to capital discussing plans for merging foreign services, school systems, airlines and textbooks. Military delegations brooded over the vital amalgamation of the three armed forces. Jurists were hard...
Neighboring Jordan seethed with an unrest that might dethrone King Hussein and force the nation to join an Arab union. Cairo's press headlined that Hussein was challenged by his army. Syria and Iraq papers reported "spreading revolution" and "guerrilla war with pitched battles." In Damascus a band of Jordanian exiles, led by handsome, hotheaded ex-Colonel Ali Abu Nuwar, 40, set up a rival "government." Abu Nuwar had nearly toppled Hussein in 1957, but because of old friendship, the King spared Abu Nuwar's life and banished him. Ever since, Abu Nuwar has repaid...
...former U.N. Congo commander, Swedish Major General Carl Von Horn, is a device to save political face for everyone. Saudi Arabia had already been cutting back on its supply of money and guns to the royalists, largely because Egypt's projected plan for unity with Syria and Iraq made Nasser far too formidable an opponent. The U.N. intervention also gives Nasser a way out of the Yemen mess, which has tied up a third of his army at a cost of $1,000,000 a day and nearly 5,000 casualties. On balance, Nasser emerges as a clear winner...
...Inch. At week's end, however, Jordan was still intact, and it was the Arab unity movement that was reeling. It had to do with a Cabinet crisis in Syria between the majority belonging to the Baath Socialist Party and the minority of strongly Nasserite ministers. The struggle had been brewing for two months, and pro-Nasser ministers frankly told newsmen that they intended to overthrow the Baathists. The Baath counterstrategy, as enunciated by its founder, Michel Aflak, was: "Do everything to preserve unity, but don't give an inch, and don't surrender any power...
With the proposed new Arab union of Iraq, Syria and Egypt now on every Arab lip, the merger virus swept irresistibly through Jordan. The riotous crowds ended three years of relative political calm, and faced tough little King Hussein, 27, with his deepest crisis. Two-thirds of Jordan's 1,800,000 people are Palestinian Arabs, who care little about the nation's stability, progress or growing industry. Above all else, they are intent on eliminating Israel and regaining their former homes, and see Arab unity as the only way to do it; to them, Egypt...