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...Syria for having sought a private agreement with Israel by begging for a cease-fire only 24 hours after the fighting commenced in 1973. Cairo newspapers have charged that Syrian "prisons and concentration camps are crammed with people whose only crime was a word of objection against the terrorist Baath Party." When Kissinger attempted to arrange a European meeting between Assad and Ford following the American President's trip to Rambouillet, Egyptians deliberately leaked the details while Assad was in Moscow. The premature Egyptian announcement forced Assad to deny the Ford talks in order to salvage his Moscow meeting...
Politics in Syria is synonymous with the Baath Party. Baath - Arabic for renaissance - is a movement founded by two young Syrian schoolteachers, who sought to meld Marxist socialism with Arab nationalism. Much like early Communism, the movement is organized upward from haliah (cells) of three to seven people; above the cells is a network of companies, divisions, branches and regions. In Syria the regional command is composed of a 21-member elite, with Assad as Secretary-General...
Three years ago, Assad formed a National Progressive Front that allowed Communists and other leftist non-Baath factions a role in government. Pragmatically, Assad has allowed nonpolitical experts to hold high places in government, since Syria desperately needs their talents...
...Jerusalem. Jordan's King Hussein was in a frosty mood, principally because Congress has drastically chopped his request for $350 million worth of antiaircraft weaponry, including 14 batteries of Hawk missiles. In Damascus, Syria's President Hafez Assad was courteous but stiff; later Assad's Baath Party called the Sinai agreement "strange and disgraceful," and Assad pointedly refused to receive Egyptian Vice President Husny Mobarak when he appeared to explain the Egyptian view. In Israel, as she made a rare political appearance to vote for ratification at a Labor Party caucus, former Premier Golda Meir said...
Meanwhile, the Russians are also realizing that close friendship has its hazards. Iraq and Syria, whose rival Baath parties have been quarreling for years, are now involved in an even more feral argument over sharing the Euphrates' water; the Soviets are damned if they take sides and damned if they don't. Moscow is also faced with an inevitable conflict between Communism and either Arab nationalism or Moslem theocracy, or both...