Word: syria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After Syria's breakaway last September, the three-year-old United Arab States consisted only of two members-Egypt and tiny, backward Yemen. Last week, Nasser kicked out Yemen. With Egypt thus turned into a federation of one but still clinging to the now meaningless title of United Arab Republic, Nasser promised new glories for "Arab socialism," started off by lavishly insulting his old Arab enemies and generally agitating the Middle East...
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...made it 80), an Englishman hailed by the Arabs as El Aurens, who in 2½ years had led the revolt in the desert from the Red Sea port of Jidda to the gates of Damascus. Then, with his chosen prophet, Emir Feisal, about to be crowned king of Syria, Lawrence disappeared as suddenly as he came, in what seemed a superb gesture of modesty and abdication...
Nasser, who knows well that this is the surest way to discredit Syria in the Arab world, assiduously painted the new regime as a "reactionary" front for British interests. In Syria itself, the powerful socialist Baath Party charged that the government ''represents vested interests trying to stuff their own pockets." The government was determined to put Syria's plundered economy on an even keel and slow Nasser's precipitate nationalization program. But able, French-trained Economics Minister Awad Barakat said he would press forward with land redistribution, ''with certain modifications," and retain intact "social...
From Moscow, Syria's exiled Communist Boss Khalid Bakdash wired congratulations to the new government, with a request for permission to return home (which he is rumored to have done already). "He is welcome." replied Syria's army commander in chief, Major General Abdel Karim Zahreddin. "But he will be hanged on arrival...