Word: assad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South Yemen's Ali Nasser Mohammed and Iraq's Saddam Hussein, who was still smarting from Israel's surprise raid last June on the nuclear reactor in Baghdad. In all, eight top-level Arab leaders failed to go to Fez, including Syria's President Hafez Assad, who sent in his place Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam...
...room to maneuver was also cramped by his dependence on Syria, which helps sustain the P.L.O. as a military force. Syrian Prime Minister Abdul-Rauf Kassem has criticized the Fahd plan as "ineffective." But Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam is known to favor it, and President Hafez Assad has yet to be convinced. Should the Syrians and the P.L.O. finally side with the Saudis, other intransigent states like Algeria would probably go along, leaving Libya the main opposition to the plan...
...number of other Arab governments were outwardly unsympathetic but inwardly troubled. The Saudis broke with Sadat over Camp David but still saw him as a counterweight to the regimes in Syria and Iraq, with whom they are united only by their opposition to Israel. Both Syria's President Hafez Assad and Jordan's King Hussein are vulnerable to the kind of Muslim fanaticism that brought down Iran and troubles Egypt. As one Western diplomat said of Assad and Hussein, "They won't be reviewing military parades for a while...
...have destroyed, any hope that Philip Habib, Reagan's special Middle East envoy, could find a solution to the crisis over Syria's antiaircraft missiles in Lebanon. Last week Habib continued his round-robin shuttle, conferring first with Saudi officials in Riyadh, then with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus, next with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Jerusalem and at week's end with the Saudis again. As usual, Habib was tight-lipped about his negotiations, but Begin announced that Israel was determined to destroy the missiles if diplomacy did not remove them, and he warned...
...very fact that Assad had not yet backed down in the face of the Israeli threats and the Habib peace mission enhanced his standing with the Arab states, which were rallying to his support against Israel. The Arabs were still concerned about Syria's ties to the Soviet Union, which supplied the SA-6 missiles that were the cause of contention. At their summit meeting, Sadat said that he and Begin had a "full understanding," in the words of the Prime Minister, about the dangers of the Soviets' getting a firmer foothold in the Middle East...