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Aside from Jadid, 62 -- who served as the assistant secretary general of the regional command of the Baath Party, the ruling party then as well as now -- the more prominent of the 18 include Noureddine Attassi, 60, who was President and Prime Minister, and Mohammed Id Ashawi, 59, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. All the inmates are said to be in poor health because of inadequate medical care and, in some cases, the effects of torture. Some reportedly are victims of the "German chair," a modern-day torture rack used by Syria...
...themselves with more foes than just the Israelis. In Lebanon, exiled Syrian politicians, including former Premier Amin Hafez-whom the Baathists overthrew last year-meet regularly to plot a return to power. Jadid has lately been at odds with the civilians through whom he rules. Chief of State Noureddin Attassi, who is believed to favor a somewhat more conciliatory policy toward Israel, recently walked angrily out of a conference with the generals. In a Cabinet shake-up this month, Jadid gave four comparatively minor jobs to moderates, but actually consolidated the control of the most important posts in the hands...
...territory, the Arabs continued to demonstrate their inability to face up to the problems of negotiating a peace. In a week of frenzied activity, Iraq's President Abdel Rahman Aref flew off to Syria, then to Jordan, then back home again to receive Syrian Head of State Noureddin Attassi on a return call. After receiving Aref in Amman, Jordan's King Hussein took off on a whirlwind visit to nine other Middle Eastern and Arab countries that would last ten days. Kuwait Prime Minister Jaber Al-Ahmed Es-Sabah dropped in on the Shah of Iran. Yugoslavia...
Arabs now hear the Israelis' side of the war 14 hours a day on Arabic broadcasts over Radio Kol Israel. On shows such as The Truth and the Lie, old tapes of Nasser, Syria's Attassi and other Arab leaders are juxtaposed with recent statements. And now Israel, which has been slow to supply tele vision entertainment for its own citizens, has started a crash program to get an Arabic TV station in service. For the Arabs have long been avid TV fans; many more sets can be found in the conquered territories than in Israel...
...shortly joined in Cairo by Jordan's King Hussein, who privately pleaded for some sort of accommodation with Israel-but got nowhere with his fellow Arabs. After he flew home to Amman, the leaders of the Arab left all converged on Cairo; Syria's Noureddin Attassi, Iraqi Strongman Abdel Aref and Sudanese President Ismail el Azhari joined Nasser and Boumediene for two days of nonstop talks in ornate Kubbeh Palace...