Word: baathist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cream great hall of Kubbah Palace, Nasser proposed a sharing of guilt. "The presence of Baath in the Arab homeland is a necessity," he declared. "The resignation of the Baath ministers from the U.A.R. government in 1961 was a mistake. Accepting the resignations was also a mistake." The Baathist delegates clapped and cheered this burying of the hatchet. In a startlingly un-Arab spirit of amity and compromise, both sides accepted the other's good faith and minimum terms...
Damascus radio went on the air proclaiming the Baathist slogans of "Unity, Freedom, Socialism!" A jubilant Syrian army officer at a border post said. ''We want unity, not with Nasser, but with all Arabs." As in Iraq, the Syrian National Council of the Revolutionary Command insisted on anonymity. The new 20-man Cabinet has only two military men, and the Baath party is strongly represented. New Premier Salah El-Bitar, 45, is a former Syrian Foreign Minister and a Baathist with strong sympathies toward Arab unity. A tall, hulking Damascene with dark, brooding eyes and brilliantined hair...
...revolution in Syria is unlikely to be the final firecracker on the string. Baathist and Nasserite elements are known to be at work in Jordan, especially among the Palestinian Arabs. Saudi Arabia can no longer trust its small air force or even the officer corps of its regular army. If it comes to fighting, the Saudi rulers will depend on their "white army," the Bedouin tribesmen traditionally loyal to the King. But if the road ahead looks rough for the monarchies, it by no means is smooth for the "liberated" states, since victory most often presents only new occasions...
...basic Baath doctrine insists that "there are no Arab nations; there is only one Arab nation." This creed is, of course, warmly embraced by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, but Aref and Iraq's Baath Party seem hardly eager to fall under Cairo's domination. The Baathist leaders in Iraq, in fact, have reshaped their doctrine of Arab unity into a concept of federation of Arab states without a centralized dictatorship. This could mean anything, including a revival of the old concept of loose unity in the "Fertile Crescent"-Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. Already Syria, having...