Word: baathist
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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Moral Lepers. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser put his finger on two culprits: 1) Michel Aflak, the fraii; intellectual Christian Arab who founded the Baath Socialist Party; and 2) Salah Bitar, Aflak's disciple and the present Baathist Premier of Syria. Denouncing the two as fascists, secessionists, traitors, moral lepers and "seekers after power," Nasser blasted them as solely responsible for the collapse of the unity agreement concluded last April between Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The agreement called for a merger of the three nations into a greater United Arab Republic, but in the months since...
...Yemen. But the two Baath nations are having worse troubles. Iraq is deeply committed to wiping out the Kurdish rebellion in its northern provinces, and it is becoming clear that the Kurdish war is not going well. Syria is rolling downhill economically at an appalling speed, and though its Baathist regime has survived two Nasserite revolts, it may crumple before a third. Nasser certainly will not stop trying, for he has an almost mystical attachment to the embattled little country. A close friend of his once observed: "Nasser's not in love with any woman, but only with something...
...Strategy. Nasser last week tried a lover's trick to split his foes: he began wooing Syria's Baathist ally, Iraq. In a coaxingly worded invitation, Nasser urged Iraq's President Abdul Salam Aref to visit Cairo "to see personally how much the Egyptian people like you and their Iraqi brothers." Though known to have pro-Nasser sympathies, Aref played it safe by politely refusing the invitation, and pointedly phoned Syria's Bitar to assure him of Iraq's support...
...suffered, Yemen's President Sallal was on a triumphal tour of the Middle East. Though plagued by conspiracies at home-he crushed two "imperialist" plots in his own regime before leaving-Sallal got tremendous ovations from street crowds in Damascus and Baghdad. In lordly style, he urged the Baathist leaders of Syria and Iraq to disperse the "summer cloud" of their differences with Egypt's Nasser, and grandly offered the virtually nonexistent Yemen republican army as an ally in repulsing "Zionist and imperialist aggressors...
...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 that the moment...