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...gunfire lasted for four hours, and three Syrian MIG fighter planes-serving either the government, the rebels, or their own whim-knocked out the radio transmitter. When the radio limped back on the air, it was still in government hands. The strongman of Syria's ruling Baath (Renaissance) Party, General Mohammed Hafez, who is both Defense Minister and army chief of staff, broadcast that the effort "to disturb the peace" had been crushed. Next day he announced the break in the rules of Syrian-style coups: eight rebel military men and twelve civilians had been executed. Hafez blamed...
...Even Baath party newspapers conceded that Syria was at last ready to accept Nasser's demand for a "national front" federation in which his supporters would have equal strength with Baath. After a ten-hour conference with Nasser, President Atassi flew home and rushed to the military hospital to kiss the soldiers wounded in defending his regime. At week's end Damascus radio was still making brief, shrill broadcasts insisting that the revolt was crushed, but the country remained buttoned up against the outside world, with borders, airports and harbors sealed...
...Baghdad, the ruling Baath (Renaissance) Party announced the unmasking of a "black plot to plunge Iraq into a sea of blood," proceeded to round up leading Nasser sympathizers. Among those arrested were three generals, five colonels, two ex-Cabinet ministers, and the organizer of the pro-Nasser Arab Socialist Union Party, Abdel Razzak Shabib. By week's end, 180 Iraqi Nasserites were behind bars and facing trial...
...Damascus, the Syrian Baath Party, which bounced the Nasserites out of the government three weeks earlier, pushed ahead with its own mopping-up operations. Syria's Baathists fired three pro-Nasser ambassadors and several other top officials, and dishonorably discharged 40 army men suspected of pro-Egyptian leanings...
...also sounded a warning to his Baath party rivals in Syria, who had just purged their regime of pro-Nasser elements. But his words were curiously mild. During the twelve days of Nasser's trip to Algeria and Yugoslavia, Radio Cairo had made the air waves blue with abuse of Syria's Baathist leaders. On his return, Nasser abruptly choked off the broadcast vituperation. He gave a place of honor to a visiting Syrian delegation during his Republic Square speech and conferred lengthily with the Syrians until their quiet return to Damascus at midweek. He had clearly decided...