Word: syrians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Syrian capital of Damascus was the convention center of the Arab world last week. On hand were the leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization, assembled for the first meeting of their National Council in almost two years. Hardly had those meetings opened when reports began to circulate throughout the city that the long feuding governments of Syrian President Hafez Assad and Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan Bakr were about to take a tentative step toward merger. With all that going on, Jordan's King Hussein abruptly decided he had better fly to Damascus too to get in on things...
...make peace with Israel, the governments of Syria and Iraq were on the verge of announcing that they were prepared to share one flag, one President, one foreign and defense policy and one ministry of information, all in the interests of Islamic unity against Israel. Declared an exuberant Syrian official: "We are about to change the whole balance of power in the region...
...countries agreed in principle to merge into one state with a single military command and the Syrian and Iraqi heads of state will meet next week to discuss details, the report said...
DIED. Philip K. Hitti, 92, Syrian-born Orientalist and professor of Semitic literature at Princeton (1926-54) who pioneered the study of Arabic and Islamic cultures in the U.S.; in Princeton...
...peace and terrorism dominated the headlines. Lebanon's capital was a battleground once more, as Syrian forces in Beirut tried to crush militant right-wing Christian armies. Cambodia and Viet Nam set about invalidating the domino theory (if Viet Nam goes Communist, the rest of Southeast Asia will go too) by slashing at each other's throats in border war instead of pursuing a common ideological expansion. The Shah of Iran's 37-year reign was shaken by week upon week of riots. In Italy, the Red Brigades kidnaped former Premier Aldo Moro, held him for 54 days, then shot...