Word: assad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foray, however, had an unexpected side effect in bringing to a head a feud within the Syrian government. In what amounted to yet another upheaval in Syria, Lieut. General Hafiz Assad, the Defense Minister, posted troops around government ministries and television studios in a show of strength against Chief of State Dr. Noureddine al Atassi and Baathist Party Boss Salah Jaid. If Assad makes his power play stick, one result could well be an end to Syria's quarrels with the rival Baath party in Iraq, and its isolation in the Arab world, which could lead to a more...
Prepared to Die. While Egypt's troops and 5,000 men of the Palestinian Liberation Army faced Israel on the West, 40,000 Syrians to the north squinted into Israel, as Major General Hafez Assad put it, "with their fingers tight on their triggers." Jordan's 40,000-man Arab Legion moved into position in the west, and Iraq sent 5,000 troops to help out in Syria. Algeria promised an airlift of troops, and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, ordering 20,000 of his men into Jordan, proclaimed that "any Arab who falters in this battle...
Purchased from Manhattan dealers, the uncut bolts of flags, generally the small, nonceremonial kind, are retailing for about 20? a yard. Port-au-Prince cloth merchants alone have already sold the equivalent of more than 1,000,000 Old Glories. Dealer Pierre Assad, who bought the flag material from Manhattan's Philip Rothman at 12? a yard, also has bolts and bolts of Hungarian and Polish cloth, but says the U.S. flag "is beating the hell out of the Communist material...