Word: syria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Syria coups d'état are about as routine as city council elections, but last week's upheaval was one for the books. The eighth coup in 13 years-and the third since September 1961-it was engineered by a Parliament that had been dissolved by the army last March, and it brought to power as Premier a politician who had been tossed into jail at the same time. After announcing their return, the civilian upstarts told the army to go back to soldiering, and the army obeyed. With no violence at all, constitutional rule was restored...
Ever since Syria annulled its ill-starred union with Egypt last year, it has been groping for the right groove. First it leaned too far to the right, reversing reforms in the rush to erase Nasser's traces.A ground swell of pro-Nasser sentiment surged up as a result, and the army, anxious to restore stability, staged the March coup and dissolved Parliament...
...wealthy, quadrilingual (Arabic, French, English, Turkish), landowner and industrialist, is one of Syria's most bizarre figures. He was Premier under the despised Vichy government, later became known as "the Red millionaire" for negotiating a $300 million Soviet-Czech arms deal as Defense Minister in 1957, yet managed to retain wide popularity...
Most of the delegates were sympathetic to Syria, Egypt's onetime United Arab
...Syria's most horrendous charge, at least to Arab ears, was that Egypt had toned down its anti-Israel campaign in order to keep some $250 million yearly in aid coming in from the United States. (The State Department flatly denies that it has imposed any such conditions.) As for Syria's complaints of Nasserite subversion...