Word: syria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pretty girl is whipped nightly onstage, the Carrousel, with its all boy chorus line, and the Drap d Or, which had the novel distinction this year of being closed by the Parisian police for operating "an obscene revue." New Capers. The dead king was no lowbrow thug. Born in Syria...
Ayub spoke plainly on his view of the long-festering problem of refugees along the Israeli border, where more than a million Palestinians-those who fled or were ejected by Israel, and the children born to them since-still inhabit squalid detention camps in Jordan, Syria and the Gaza Strip. The Arabs have let the U.N. look after them, arguing that to provide the refugees with permanent homes and jobs would seem to be acquiescing in the existence of Israel. Ayub remarked pointedly that after partition, his own Pakistan made room for 9,000,000 Moslem refugees from India...
Guns & Eggs. Nixon saved most of his biggest guns for the biggest crowds. In Pittsburgh, where 5,500 people jammed the Syria Mosque and 1,000 more swarmed outside, and in Cincinnati (18,000 partisans), the Vice President got echoing ovations, clenched his fist and raked Kennedy. The rise in the price of gold on the international markets (see BUSINESS) was a result of the world's distrust of Kennedy's avowed economic policies, he said. "He's been up three times," cried Nixon to the baseball-conscious Pittsburghers. "He's struck out three times...
Looking tired and tense, the King said that two minor Jordanian government employees had crossed the border into Syria just before the bombings, and Jordan now demanded that they be sent back. If they were not, he said, Jordan would seek satisfaction in the Arab League...
...that had been established between Hus sein and Nasser a week earlier at an Arab League meeting in Lebanon. Jordan police arrested an Amman bookshop owner named Salah el Saffadi, who was said to have confessed that the explosives used to murder Majali had arrived at his bookstall from Syria innocuously labeled "press material." The two fugitive employees had dragged the bombs into the office building in suitcases the night before and set the fuses. One left the country by midnight. The other, said police, coolly collected his monthly paycheck at 8:30 a.m. before departing for what he said...