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...bombs and assassination attempts against government officials, including three attacks on Foreign Minister Khaddam. Assad faced his most serious challenge from the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islamic group rabidly opposed to Damascus' secular policies. In June 1979 the group gunned down more than 60 cadets, mostly Alawites, at the Aleppo military academy. The next spring, a general strike in northern Syria was stopped only after 12,000 troops killed hundreds and arrested thousands...
...farmer unearthed a strange item in the Syrian sands: a snarling lion carved from gray basalt. He dug a little further and found a ritual basin ringed with marching warriors and a banquet scene. The pieces ended up in the national museum at Aleppo...
...executions, Pakistani ofiicials negotiating with the hijackers announced that their government had agreed to release the prisoners. The capitulation defused the crisis-almost. At week's end, radical Libya, which had originally agreed to receive the Pakistani prisoners, suddenly balked. The detainees, who had flown first to Aleppo, Syria, went on to Athens, then headed back to Damascus, where the hijacked plane and the hostages remained. Finally the Syrians, who acted as mediators in the hijacking, agreed to receive the Pakistanis themselves. The hijackers found that acceptable and ended the grim drama by surrendering to Damascus authorities...
...bitter exchanges between the two countries came at a time when Syria is facing serious internal problems. Last month, according to reports from Beirut, more than 50 cadets at a military academy in Aleppo were killed by armed members of the right-wing Muslim Brotherhood. The students, most of whom belonged to Syria's small but politically dominant Alawite sect, were gunned down following an academy lecture. Announcing the slayings a week later on Damascus radio, Syria's Interior Minister, Brigadier Adnan Dabbagh, accused the brotherhood of also carrying out a series of other political assassinations since...
...Aleppo massacre, and the swift retribution against the Muslim Brotherhood that followed, were chilling reminders of the deep political and religious tensions that continue to plague Syria and now seem to threaten President Hafez Assad himself. By skillful manipulation of Syria's diverse religious, tribal and regional elements, he has given his country almost ten years of internal stability...