Word: syria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Regional 41.9 461.1 503.0 $13,743.2 $8,417.3 $22,160.5 MIDDLE EAST & SOUTH ASIA Cyprus 16.9 16.9 Greece 1,784.8 1,602.8 3,387.6 Iran 732.3 577.9 1,310.2 Iraq 21.6 46.1 67.7 Israel 874.7 3.0 877.7 Jordan 325.2 24.1 349.3 Lebanon 80.4 8.6 89.0 Saudi Arabia 46.6 46.6 Syria 75.8 75.8 Turkey 1,581.3 2,288.0 3,869.3 U.A.R. (Egypt) 628.6 628.6 Yemen 22.9 22.9 CENTO 27.4 27.4 Afghanistan 216.8 2.8 219.6 Ceylon 79.7 79.7 India 3,952.0 3,952.0 Nepal 48.4 48.4 Pakistan 1,889.6 1,889.6 Indus Basins 33.8 33.8 Regional...
...morning early this month, a phone shrilled in the small office off the bedroom of Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Already awake, he lifted the receiver to hear exciting news: a military coup had just been launched against the anti-Nasser government of Syria. The phone rang again. It was the Minister of Culture and National Guidance. How should Radio Cairo handle the Syrian crisis? Support the rebels, snapped Nasser...
This done, Nasser finished dressing and went downstairs. The phone rang again, long distance from Baghdad. President Abdul Salam Aref, who only four weeks before had overthrown another anti-Nasser regime in Iraq, solicitously asked what Nasser intended doing about Syria. Nasser said that he would recognize a rebel government as soon as it was formed. Aref delicately responded that of course. Egypt should be the first state to grant recognition, promised that Iraq would follow suit five minutes later...
While trying, at least, to unite verbally in Cairo. Iraq and Syria were still busy last week consolidating their revolutions at home. Iraq, which has already executed 25 local Communist leaders, condemned to death another 51. In feeble retaliation, the Soviet Union created a small riot...
...showed the wreck to be a small merchantman about 30 ft. long. Fragments of pottery dated it back to around 1200 B.C., the late Bronze Age that Homer wrote about. Bits of planking preserved under the cargo show that the ship was probably built of Syrian wood and in Syria. She must have touched at Cyprus, the ancient copper center, to pick up a ton of copper ingots, stamped with Cypro-Minoan signs. She also carried ingots of tin, probably from Syria, that have long since turned to white oxide. Packed in wicker baskets, are fragments of broken bronze tools...