Show Syria Requests Place In United Nations By ASSOCIATED PRESS The new Syrian government took Monday what U.N. officials regarded as a first step toward application for membership in the United A U. N. s p ok e s m a n said Premier Mamoun head of the new Syrian addressed a communication to of president of the U.N. saying his government intends to adhere to the principles of the U. N. The spokesman said this could be regarded as a preliminary to application for U.N. He said he was in error in reporting earlier that it was an actual THE PROVISIONAL government also asked the United States for diplomatic the State Department The department spokesman said he request is The request came through Ridgway B. U.S. consul general in It reached Washington Sunday department press officer Francis W. Tully THE SYRIA regime also launched a mass deportation of Egyptians Monday and announced the arrest of a Syrian strongman who until recently was President Nasser's vice president in the United Arab The jailed strongman is Abdul Hamid He quit his Cairo job for some unannounced reason and returned to Damascus only 48 hours before the outbreak Thursday of the army revolt that broke the Syrian-Egyptian union of 1958 which he had helped to A broadcast said was arrested at a Damascus hideout Sunday He was accused of carrying out sabotage and subversion against Premier Mamoun 's |