Word: awad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powerful socialist Baath Party charged that the government ''represents vested interests trying to stuff their own pockets." The government was determined to put Syria's plundered economy on an even keel and slow Nasser's precipitate nationalization program. But able, French-trained Economics Minister Awad Barakat said he would press forward with land redistribution, ''with certain modifications," and retain intact "social benefits instituted by the previous regime," including compulsory profit sharing in private industry...