Word: syrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rotten bodies swing!" Baghdad Radio tried to spread infection to Iran with a Persian-language broadcast: "Dear compatriots, shake off the dust of humiliation and misery. Today all freedom-loving peoples have revolted against imperialism." Radio Cairo wooed the Sudan; the "Voice of Free Lebanon" (which uses the same Syrian transmitter and wave length as the Jordan People's Radio) called anew for the removal of "crazy" President Chamoun, and threatened the U.S. forces with "catastrophic consequences...
...harmful to trade, was supposed to continue, a bomb exploded in a Beirut coffeehouse, killing two innocent bystanders and wounding another. While U.S. marines got their first liberty, 2,000 at a time, in Beirut, a pro-Chamoun leader and two of his aides were found near the Syrian border with their throats slit from...
...exploiting his victorious annexation of "the northern region of Syria," which was presumably a richer economy than Egypt's. Confessed Nasser: "The past five months of union have not achieved the degree of production we had hoped for. I did not acquaint myself with the budget of the Syrian region before proclaiming unity. It seems there was a deficit in Syria's budget. Syria's reserve had all been spent. The task was very hard and complicated, but I hope we shall recover...
...were still scrambling to get into Iraq as best they could. Correspondent Daniel F. Gilmore and Photographer Dieter Hespe of United Press International, and NBC's Tom Streithorst, hired a Beirut taxi to drive them the 620 miles between Beirut and Baghdad. When their driver quit at the Syrian border, they hitched a ride on a Syrian potato truck, got another taxi in Damascus. They bought off suspicious Lebanese rebels with cigarettes and bottles of a local brew named arak, steered by the North Star when the road disappeared in the desert...
...General Shawkat Shukayr, former Syrian army chief, was directing Rebel Leader Kamal Jumblatt's military operations...