Word: syrians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hungry Persian offers good food at cheap prices. The fare consists mostly of combinations of meat and salads stuffed into Syrian pita bread. You can eat quickly, but the pleasant atmosphere makes a leisurely meal a promising prospect. The Hungry Persian is a refreshing change from hamburger sameness. Be sure to try the Phase Four special, a Nixonomics soybean variation of the standard Hungry Persian dish which the management claims is as tasty and more nutritious than the original. Friendly and informal, this place is certainly a Boylston St. bargain...
...cholera epidemic," jokes one Russian official-but they are keeping their temper in check. Says an Israeli analyst: "Everything would change if Brezhnev were to fall and anti-détente forces took over in Moscow. The Russians would then immediately try to get rid of Sadat and possibly [Syrian President Hafez] Assad...
...approached the airport, he could detect in the distance the salient from which, by coincidence, Israeli troops that day were beginning to pull back in accordance with the disengagement agreement that Kissinger had worked out. One of the larger groups that watched the motorcade pass by was composed of Syrian refugees from the Golan Heights. The tough-looking young soldiers that guarded the airport and roads were armed with Russian-made AK-47s. Nixon's limousine also swept by a Palestinian refugee camp composed of grim, concrete-block and tin-roofed buildings...
...Moscow two weeks from now will be more restrained than it might have been because of the Russians' displeasure over their eclipse in the Middle East. Ironically, the U.S. has gone out of its way to give the appearance that the Soviets have been involved in the Syrian-Israeli disengagement negotiations, even as Moscow has played down the U.S. role and permitted little reporting on Nixon's trip...
...torture of prisoners of war who had been held by either side until the cease-fire accord was signed. In the Knesset, Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres detailed a long list of torture incidents. He charged that some of the repatriated Israeli P.O.W.s had had fingernails ripped out by Syrian captors, while others had been beaten, burned and maimed. At least two P.O.W.s, said Peres, died after being tortured...