Word: baath
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...family, studied architecture in Zurich and Vienna and received a doctorate in West Berlin (hence "Doctor"). He taught architecture at Baghdad University in Iraq, ran a private consulting business there, invested in banking, insurance and industry, and served as a sometime government adviser. In 1969, a year after the Baath Party came to power, Barbouti fled the country, fearing that he might be arrested as a spy because he had built a headquarters for a foreign-owned petroleum group. For nearly a decade he moved around the Middle East and Europe, finally settling in London with his wife and three...
Bringing Syria around was not easy. The longtime feud between Assad and Saddam Hussein poisoned the first day's summit proceedings. The two men, who are rivals for leadership of the region's socialist Baath movement, refused to shake hands, exchange words or even look at each other. But after hours of delicate mediation by other Arab leaders, the atmosphere thawed. At one point, when the Syrian and Iraqi Foreign Ministers were deadlocked over a U.N. resolution calling for a cease-fire in the gulf war, Jordanian Foreign Minister Taher Masri went to Assad's suite to discuss the problem...
Almost too late, Assad realized that Iran and Hizballah posed a threat to Syria's position in Lebanon. He also came to understand that an Islamic stronghold in Lebanon might eventually undermine Assad's own secular Baath ; Party government in Damascus. In 1984 Assad threw his support to Amal, the mainstream Lebanese Shi'ite organization and militia led by Nabih Berri, but Hizballah's influence continued to spread. One reason Assad sent his army into West Beirut in February was to bring the Iranians to heel...
Iraq's frustration lies in the realization that it is not strong enough militarily to force Iran to discuss peace. Khomeini, enraged that Saddam started the war, has vowed that he will accept nothing less than the overthrow of Iraq's President and its ruling Baath Party--and Saddam is not about to assent to his own downfall. In an effort to persuade Iran to negotiate by choking off its oil revenues, the Iraqis began attacking tanker traffic in the Persian Gulf last March. Since the start of the "tanker war," 44 oil carriers have been hit. The campaign...
...party officials nominated him in his absence for a seat on the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Republic, a post of no significance. They released statements in Chernenko's name congratulating Syrian President Hafez Assad on his re-election as head of his country's ruling Baath Party, and greeting a Moscow peace conference...