Word: assad
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...also caught in a political squeeze. The gulf leaders refuse his calls, and he is unwelcome in their countries. In addition, the emerging Saudi-Egyptian-Syrian axis cuts him out of the locus of power. Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak feels personally betrayed by Arafat, and Syria's Hafez Assad has long disdained...
...someone's death. It is often argued that an assassination of Adolf Hitler before World War II might have saved tens of millions of lives. If killing Hitler would have been morally justified, how about Idi Amin Dada, under whose regime 300,000 Ugandans died? Or Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has given protection to the Palestinian group considered responsible for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland? What level of evil deeds or threat to world peace justifies as asassination, and who is qualified to make such a judgment? Those questions are impossible to answer...
...image of American firmness on terrorism was somewhat shaken by Secretary of State James Baker's visit last week to Syria, a country the U.S. officially lists as a sponsor of terrorist organizations. Baker emphasized that the U.S. has "differences" with Syria and its steel-fisted dictator, Hafez Assad. But he wanted to encourage Damascus to send more troops to the international effort in the gulf. His four-hour meeting with Assad was also intended to underscore for Arab nationalists that not all radicals side with Iraq. Assad agreed to dispatch 300 tanks and an estimated 15,000 soldiers...
...Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria. Some glimmerings of this alignment surfaced last week when Egypt and Syria agreed to send as many as 50,000 more soldiers to help defend the Saudis. The new grouping would not be entirely reassuring to the U.S. unless Syria's leader, Hafez Assad, completely abandons support of Palestinian terrorist groups. But the U.S. would benefit if Egypt developed political influence to match the cultural clout it already wields as a supplier of films, books, newspapers and teachers to much of the Arab world...
When I swore to defend my country, Mikhail Gorbachev was still our greatest enemy. So was Syrian President Hafez Assad. The Reagan Administration supported Saddam Hussein in his war against Iran, and did not complain when he gassed thousands of his citizens. Or when he bombed one of our ships, killing 37 men. I believed...