Word: baath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reported Israeli authorities, belonged to a pro-Syrian radical faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization known as the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Although bombs have exploded around Jerusalem three times in the past four months, the latest assault was darkly acclaimed by the Syrian paper Al Baath as the dawning of a new era of guerrilla activity...
...crumbling Star of David or a malevolent Menachem Begin loading a cannon with shells provided by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. A message emblazoned on the back cover reads: WHY DO WE WANT TO LIBERATE JERUSALEM? WE CAN DO IT THROUGH THE LIBERATION OF IRAQ AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BAATH PARTY...
...years, Syria's modern history has been a saga of coups and countercoups. In 1958 Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser merged his country with Syria to form the United Arab Republic, but the union lasted only 3½ years. In 1963 the Arab Socialist Resurrection (or Baath) Party overthrew President Nazem Koudsi and seized power in Damascus...
Assad's religion that put him on the path to power. With few career opportunities available to a non-Sunni, Assad entered the military academy at 22; by 25, he was an air force officer. Around that time, the ambitious Assad became active in the country's Baath Party, which advocates a mixture of socialism and Arab nationalism. After the Baathists seized power in 1963, Assad became general of the air force, then Minister of Defense. In 1970, living up to his name, which translates as "lion," Assad staged his own coup. Hisback as straight as a bayonet...
...diplomats toward the Arabs and their cause." At the time of the signing, the Syrians expressed their displeasure by closing highways in the Syrian-controlled areas of northern and eastern Lebanon. The Syrians have hinted that they might close the Syrian-Lebanese border indefinitely. The newspaper of the ruling Baath Party spoke of "a crushing civil war that would splinter Lebanon's unity and cancel its existence as a country...