Word: syria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arab nations seldom brawl more passionately than when they get together to promote Arab unity. As fraternal delegates streamed into a special session of the Arab League in the Lebanese resort town of Shtura last week, security police relieved them of several dozen pistols. Syria's Ambassador Khalil Kallas key noted the eleven-day session by announcing sweetly: "We have come here to cut off Nasser's head and end his reptile tactics." The Egyptians spat back that the Syrians were "barking dogs." The Iraqis for once had nothing to say; they boycotted the conference when they heard...
...Syria had requested the special session to complain about Nasser's "aggression and open interference" in its internal affairs, presented 200 pages of names, dates and affidavits to document the charge...
Holed up in the rugged, isolated mountain country that straddles the borders of Syria, Turkey, Iran, Russia and Iraq, the Kurds are a rebellious, trigger-happy breed who distrust the Arabs and traditionally hanker after little more than a fine horse, a good rifle, and a woman who can bear strong sons. For the past year, however, Iraq's Kurds have been in open revolt, last April demanded an autonomous Kurdish state in northern Iraq. Led by Red-leaning Mustafa Barzani, a onetime mullah (religious teacher) who spent twelve years of exile in Russia, Kurdish rebels have seized control...
...Catholic bishops, will receive him at the White House. At home in Lebanon, Meouchi is frequently consulted by Lebanon's Prime Minister Rashid Karame, a Moslem.* Both Lebanon's Grand Mufti and Jordan's King Hussein are good friends and correspondents of Meouchi's, and Syria's President Nazem El-Koudsi phones him often from Damascus. No Middle Eastern statesman of any faith would think of visiting Lebanon without stopping in at his yellow stone palace at Bkerki, near Beirut. "We are everybody's father," says the patriarch...
...Syria's greatest external threat is still Egypt's Nasser; he has never recognized the present government, and publicly treats the Syrians like so many Israelis. Egypt does not allow mail from Syria into the country, and Radio Cairo continues to fire daily diatribes at Damascus. In the past three months, pro-Nasser forces in Syria have tossed more than 100 bombs and staged several minor coup attempts. The young Nasserite officers of the Aleppo garrison, who rose against the Damascus government last April, have been separated and shifted elsewhere by the more moderate generals in control...