Word: baathist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading victim of that purge was ex-Premier Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, a retired major general and a Baathist from the movement's romantic early days. Though Al-Bakr retired to his Baghdad home, he constantly plotted against the Arefs. One abortive but memorable 1964 attempt involved six Baathist air force MIG pilots, who planned to shoot down the presidential transport as it lifted from a runway. When worsening conditions in the country this year gave Al-Bakr a better chance to regain power, he started meeting at his house with 13 retired officer-politicians. In April, the group...
Unity for Now. Since the new junta consists of non-Baathist rightists and centrists as well as Al-Bakr and his friends, an inner power struggle may develop. Showing unity for the moment at least, the new rulers went through the standard motions of damning the previous regime and delivering vague promises of "national unity" and coming democracy. Aref and his backers, they said with customary hyperbole, were "opportunists, thieves, ignorant, illiterate Zionist spies...
...fewest men, was left saddled with the smallest refugee burden and, to its everlasting discredit, came out with much of its military armor untarnished by combat. With hardly a pause, the Syrians thus took up their prewar belligerence right where they had left off. If anything, the Baathist Party members who rule the country have become more brazen; even Egypt's Nasser cannot match them for extremism. They have not only cut themselves off completely from the West but are increasingly isolating themselves from other Arab nations, and even from their own people...
Baothist Brinksmen. Most Syrians are fed up with the Baathists and tired of the endless propaganda barrages. Both at home and abroad, the trio of ruling Baathist generals, led by Salah Jadid, find themselves with more foes than just the Israelis. In Lebanon, exiled Syrian politicians, including former Premier Amin Hafez-whom the Baathists overthrew last year-meet regularly to plot a return to power. Jadid has lately been at odds with the civilians through whom he rules. Chief of State Noureddin Attassi, who is believed to favor a somewhat more conciliatory policy toward Israel, recently walked angrily...
...nation and for Israel, in turn, to pull out of all its "new territories." As Tito might have expected, the idea got nowhere. Nasser refused to compromise because "such a move would encourage future aggression to get further concessions." In Damascus, Tito heard the same. "Imperialist machinery," trumpeted the Baathist Party's daily Al Baath, "is conspiring to produce peace. The Arab answer is: never." In Iraq, Aref told his Yugoslav guest that Israel would first have to with draw unconditionally from Arab soil, then there could be peace-maybe. By week's end Tito had shelved...