Word: syrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High-Class Haggling. But Dr. Cross had bigger game in mind. Earlier in the year, while dickering for fragments on behalf of Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary with the Syrian cobbler Kando, who is unofficial middleman between the Bedouins and the scholars, Cross and his fellow scholars had been offered an exceptionally large piece from Cave 4 for $12,000. An old hand at the Bedouin bargaining table, the scholars began making counteroffers. Finally, last summer, during the height of the Middle East crisis, Cross and Jordanian Curator Yusuf Saad of the Palestine Archaeological Museum sat down with Kando...
...cent of the students polled favored a plan for skipping three meals a week (provided they could get the others through coupons, if necessary.) In this number, of course, are chronic breakfast-skippers, those who can afford to eat elsewhere and students who might like to try a Syrian restaurant on Sunday night, if they didn't feel they were paying for the meal twice. In a metropolitan area, eating out can be as valuable a part of college life as the dining hall...
...were busy with trials of opposition leaders. The Iraqis rounded up 108 supporters of the deposed regime of murdered King Feisal and Nuri asSaid. The first defendant, Major General Ghazi Daghestani, predictably "confessed" that he had been involved in a plot with the U.S. and Britain to "overthrow" the Syrian government...
...feeling secure enough to order the release of 50 army officers who had been held on suspicion of disloyalty. Not to be outdone, Israel announced it had uncovered "the biggest spy ring ever discovered" with the arrest of twelve Israeli Arabs who were working under the direction of Syrian military intelligence...
Syria, after more than six months of Nasser's rule by remote control, found its economy shakier than before. To quiet dissatisfied Syrian businessmen. Nasser allowed Syria a separate budget, vetoed some of his planners' grandiose schemes and ordered a cut in armaments. Unhappy Syrian officers reportedly flung their caps on the table, the traditional gesture of threatening to resign from the army if they do not have their way. More agreeable to Nasser was his three-day meeting with Crown Prince Feisal, Premier of oil-rich Saudi Arabia, who announced that "clouds between the two countries have...