Word: baath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Syria's military tribunal announced another espionage case in the offing. Billed as the master agent was Elie Cohn, an Egyptian Jew who stands accused-with no fewer than 63 accomplices, including 17 women-of spying for Israel. In neighboring Lebanon, Beirut's violently anti-Baath newspaper Al Moharren reported that Cohn had passed himself off as a Syrian expatriate millionaire named Kamel Amin Tabet, and had become a close friend of Baathist President General Amin Hafez by bankrolling his party's activities. Cohn-Tabet became a member of Baath's top leadership and broadcast...
Syria's shaky Baath Socialist government seems determined to outdo Nasser in its hate campaign against America. Daily, the press, radio and television vilify the U.S. for what Information Minister Mashhour Zeitoun calls "America's policy of sabotage and espionage" in Syria. Attassi, although he was nephew of one of Syria's former Presidents and a cousin of Noureddin Attassi, the second-ranking man in the present Baath government, had to be hanged as a warning to all agents of "imperialism, capitalism and Zionism." In this atmosphere of hysteria, the $100 million in aid that...
...first slogan was: "1965 shall witness fundamental developments in strengthening the foundations of the regime!" That seemed to rule out a coup. At 1:30 a.m. the radio came clean: the announcer read off four new decrees that will take Syria's wobbly Baath (Renaissance) socialist government far down the Marxist road and virtually wipe out private ownership of Syria's major industries...
Nasser responded by denouncing Baath as atheistic, and the cry was picked up by Moslem religious leaders as well as by Syria's merchants and landowners, worried by Baath's militantly socialist program of nationalization and land reform. Hafez replied: "Allah alone knows who are atheists, and will punish them." The Baath regime in neighboring Iraq was toppled last fall, but in Syria the Baathists continued to preach class war, pitting workers, peasants and the army against everyone else. Early this month, Baath expropriated all landholdings over 25 acres and nationalized six of the country's largest...
...unrest spread, a 15-year-old schoolboy in a classroom in Hama (pop. 110,000) erased the Baathist slogan, "One Single Arab Nation with an Immortal Mission," and wrote instead, "The Atheist Baath Is Against God!" The boy was sentenced to a year's hard labor, and his classmates went on strike. The sheiks and mullahs of Hama's 65 mosques denounced Baathist oppression, and surging Moslem mobs filled the streets. The police opened fire and the battle of Hama began...