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...echo of his boss, Charles de Gaulle. The real cause of the Arab-Israeli war, he suggested lamely, was U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Foreign Minister Birame Mamadou Wane of Mauritania argued that Israel's "Zionist expansionism" was somehow connected to apartheid in South Africa. Syrian President Noureddin Attassi, who spent most of his time before the war inciting Arab armies to "wipe Israel off the face of the earth," charged that "Israeli neocolonialism is based in its essence on the total extermination of the Arab people." And Israel would not stop with the Arabs, warned Egypt...
...Attack, Attack & Attack." Defeat did not bring disaster to Arab political leaders. The Israeli attack on Syria seemed to have saved, for the time being at least, the wild-eyed Baathist regime of President Noureddin Attassi. Jordan's King Hussein, whose outgunned troops fought the Israelis for every inch of land, became the hero of all the Arabs. A cheering crowd in Amman converged on the King's Cadillac limousine, picked it up and carried it five yards to demonstrate their adulation. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, a longtime enemy, paid tribute to Hussein's "personal...
...they seized power from a more moderate group of Baathists last year, Syria's new leaders have turned the country onto a path of near-paranoid violence. Oddly enough, the three men who administer the government are all trained physicians: Premier Youssef Zayyen, 36; Chief of State Noureddin Attassi, 37; and Foreign Minister Ibrahim Makhous, 36. But the man with the real power is Major General Salah Jadid, 40, a career officer who was sacked from his chief-of-staff job by former Chief of State Amin Hafez late in 1965, then led the Feb. 23, 1966 coup that...
...into refugee camps on both sides of the Jordan River. Jordanian troops uncovered one huge arms cache in Hebron and, after a blazing gunfight that left one policeman dead, intercepted another truckload of weapons heading into Nablus. At an anti-Hussein demonstration in Damascus, Syrian Chief of State Noureddin Attassi promised Jordanians all the weapons they needed-not to fight Israel, but to overthrow Hussein. "Today," Attassi roared, "Jordan will be liberated and tomorrow Palestine...
...nevertheless the rebels went on the air to call themselves "the provisional command of the Baath Party," and termed the coup a party affair to "correct" a situation that "threatened to impose a dictatorial regime on the country." As their chief of state, they named Noureddin Attassi, a Jadid-style leftist and Hafez' onetime second-incommand. As Premier, they appointed -once again-Youssef Zayyen...