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Behind the crisis was a gamble three weeks ago by Syrian Nasserites that by yanking their six ministers from the Cabinet they could bring the government down, touch off street rioting, and snatch control from the dominant Baath Party in the resulting confusion. Up to a point, that was exactly what happened. Baathist Premier Salah Bitar had to quit; his replacement was Dr. Sami Jundi, supposedly a Nasser admirer. But as it turned out, Jundi, too, had Baathist leanings; after three sleepless days and nights of trying to persuade both sides to cooperate, he wearily stepped aside to let another...
...Premier? None other than Bitar, who promptly filled the Nasserite Cabinet vacancies with Baath supporters and tightened the party's grip over the army, thus completing a purge that had already sent into exile two planeloads of officers suspected of Egyptian leanings. Within hours of the anti-Nasser stroke in Syria, much the same thing happened in Iraq. There two Nasserites were dumped from the Cabinet and were replaced by more pliable fellows...
Cairo was enraged at Baath's "trickery, treachery and terrorism." Thundered Egypt's Al Gumhuria: "Punishment from God is sure to come. Or if not from God, from Nasser...
...there are in Damascus people who consider Nasserism a crime, then how do you expect me to cooperate with them?" What set off Amer's flood of rhetorical questions was the threat posed to Nasser's dream of Arab unity by the gyrations of Syria's Baath Party leaders, headed by tall, lugubrious Premier Salah Bitar. The Baath leadership wants Arab unity as much as does Nasser, but it has refused to let the party be drowned in an all-encompassing Nasserite national front. The conflict became acute last month when the regime began purging the Syrian...
...Cabinet walkout was intended to bring the Baathists to heel, and it well might. Isolated in power, with the street mobs sympathetic to Nasser and the army of uncertain loyalty, Baath's only available allies are the merchants and landowners, who most oppose Nasser's social objectives. Their embrace could be as fatal to Baath as Israel's would be to Hussein...