Word: syrian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington believes, moreover, that last month's Syrian invasion of Jordan occurred with Moscow's prior knowledge. Apparently, the U.S. and Israel were prepared to intervene directly when Russia pressed Damascus to withdraw. Two weeks ago, Soviet air controllers in East Germany attempted to close down temporarily two of the three Western air corridors to West Berlin. Besides, East German police repeatedly held up traffic last week along the main West Germany-West Berlin autobahn...
...they sent tanks to seal off their border with Lebanon in an attempt to support Palestinian commandos there against the moderate Beirut regime. Nothing but scorn is reserved for the kingdom of Jordan; Atassi is fond of saying that "the liberation of Palestine passes through Amman," presumably along with Syrian tanks. Nor is neighboring Iraq counted as a friend though it, too, has a Baathist regime. The Iraqi branch of the party has been too independent to suit the Damascene Baathists...
...Syrian force was pulled back quickly and with reportedly heavy losses. But it stayed around long enough to remind the world that the Syrians are still the biggest blusterers and brinkmen in the Middle East. When Richard Nixon dubbed them the "crazies" of the Arab world during a recent briefing for Midwestern newspapermen, it was one of those rare assessments with which both Israeli and Arab leaders could agree...
...influence. Moscow is footing half the bill for a $400 million high dam on the Euphrates, and has agreed to build oil-storage tanks at the Horns refinery and lay 500 miles of pipeline. In return, the Russians have been granted full bunkering, refueling and repair facilities at the Syrian port of Latakia. Syria's radical rulers affect a style closer to Peking's brand of Communism than Moscow's, however, and they have never hesitated to play the two giants off against one another. When Soviet arms deliveries to replace weapons destroyed...
Arab rhetoric is acknowledged to be overblown, but Syria's is sometimes in a class by itself. In their campaign of frenzied anti-Western propaganda, the Baathists once actually issued an official warning to the populace to beware of CIA "vampires," who were plotting to collect Syrian blood for wounded American G.I.s in Viet...