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Syria Reported to Have Received $15 Million Arms Gift from Peking

July 11, 1969
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Syria has received a $15 million gift of weapons from Communist China, the magazine Al Sayyad reported today, according to a dispatch from Beirut. The magazine asserted that the arms already were deployed along the cease-fire line in the Golan Heights.

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