Word: baath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last week, as rumors of yet an other upheaval continued to pour out of Damascus, the usual signs were ab sent. In fact, the supposed new strong man, Defense Minister Hafiz Assad, even showed up in public with the men he had reportedly overthrown, President Noureddine al Atassi and Baath Party Boss Salah Jadid. What had happened, it seems, was not a coup, but merely a particularly violent debate among Syria's leaders...
Next day, according to the official Baath version of events, his soldiers seized the police headquarters in Damascus, arrested party leaders in out lying towns and replaced them with the Defense Minister's men, and closed down two party newspapers. Assad also reinstated 500 army officers who had been cashiered as suspected opponents of the regime...
...posted troops around government ministries and television studios in a show of strength against Chief of State Dr. Noureddine al Atassi and Baathist Party Boss Salah Jaid. If Assad makes his power play stick, one result could well be an end to Syria's quarrels with the rival Baath party in Iraq, and its isolation in the Arab world, which could lead to a more active role against Israel...
...citizens by decreeing further delays in Iraq's decade-long "transition" from military rule to parliamentary democracy, seemed unable to get the oil-rich economy moving. Chief among those who wished to bring about a change in stagnating Iraq were the members of the right-leaning but revolutionary Baath party, who had not tasted power since Abdul Salem Aref booted them out of his government late...
...pull out of all its "new territories." As Tito might have expected, the idea got nowhere. Nasser refused to compromise because "such a move would encourage future aggression to get further concessions." In Damascus, Tito heard the same. "Imperialist machinery," trumpeted the Baathist Party's daily Al Baath, "is conspiring to produce peace. The Arab answer is: never." In Iraq, Aref told his Yugoslav guest that Israel would first have to with draw unconditionally from Arab soil, then there could be peace-maybe. By week's end Tito had shelved his proposals, and was leaking word to newsmen...