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Pocket Money. Last week the army split broke out into the open. Commander in Chief General Abdel Karim Zahreddin, a middle-of-the-roader, tried to get the two factions together in the middle-of-the-road town of Horns. Up from ancient Damascus came the conservative, high-ranking officers who supported General Zahreddin; down from Aleppo in the north came hotheaded, pro-Nasser junior officers of Colonel Louis Atassi. After a nightlong acrimonious debate, the officers emerged smiling into the daylight to announce complete agreement...
...word reached the capital of Damascus that 20 "moderate" Syrian military men had been murdered by Nasserite mobs. While he quietly made sure of the loyalty of other garrisons. General Zahreddin imposed martial law on Damascus, closed the nation's borders and airports, and sited batteries of recoilless guns on the road to Aleppo...
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...