Word: assad
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...said Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres last week, for the moment allaying fears that Israel might be on the verge of making a pre- emptive strike against its strongest Arab neighbor. Almost simultaneously, Syria's Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam declared that the Damascus government of President Hafez Assad "is not seeking aggression," though he added that Syria would "respond with all the potential it possesses" if attacked. Those statements were intended to put to rest, at least temporarily, a flurry of war talk that has rocked the region for the past fortnight. But they hardly resolved the mounting problems...
...latest crisis was sparked by fresh allegations that Syria may have played a role in recent terrorist attacks in Europe and the Mediterranean, even though in the past the Assad government has consistently deplored such assaults against civilians. The charges, pressed by the Israelis but confirmed in some particulars by some Western intelligence agencies, link Syria with the recent attempt by a Jordanian-born Palestinian to plant a bomb aboard a London-Tel Aviv El Al flight with 360 passengers aboard. Evidence also surfaced that could tie the Syrians to a West Berlin explosion that destroyed the German-Arab Friendship...
Though Syrian President Hafez Assad has so far been cleverer than Gaddafi in covering his tracks, revelations of a possible Syrian role in the El Al attempt have raised the already high level of tension between Israel and Syria. Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin told TIME last week that he believed "the decision about this crazy murderous act was taken at a relatively high level" in the Syrian government. Syria's support of terrorism "increased the danger" of a military confrontation, he warned, but he stressed that Israel does not intend to go to war with its neighbor...
...missions at once. He surely must be the only person to have confronted Walter Mondale (in - the 1984 Democratic presidential sweepstakes), Kentucky Fried Chicken (whose parent company signed an agreement with Jackson in 1982 to make it easier for blacks to obtain and finance franchises) and Syrian President Hafez Assad (who, at Jackson's urging, released a U.S. flyer shot down over Lebanon in 1983). Today Jackson and Chicago-based Operation PUSH, an organization that he founded, are in the midst of a new crusade, and this time the target is the TV networks...
...with Jordan's King Hussein, who last month announced that he had broken off political ties with Arafat following the failure of the two men to find a common approach to the Middle East peace process. "Hussein, you pig, your hands should be tied!" they shouted. "No Hussein! No Assad! Only the P.L.O.!" After winding through the town for nearly two hours, the procession approached the blue-domed Haj Mazuz al Masri mosque, which had been built by the slain mayor's uncle. There, the body was removed from its coffin, passed overhead from hand to hand into the courtyard...