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Nasser agreed completely. "We refuse, if anybody asks us,'' he said, "to form a nominal union for outward appearances.'' Later, he fervently told a Syrian delegation headed by Baath Party Leaders Michel Aflak and Salah El-Bitar: "We believe the tide of revolutionary union in this generation is a historic opportunity which will not repeat itself." He also suggested that the Baathists broaden their new Syrian government to bring in popular-that is, Nasserite-elements...
...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, he once signed a manifesto denouncing union with Egypt, but later advocated close federal ties...
...both funny and pathetic. The NATO maneuvers were forgotten. To save what face they could, the Syrians moved Fortification Week ceremonies ahead, and President Shukri el Kuwatly dutifully dug his spade into Syrian soil, crying defiance to the "invader" even as in the U.N. his Foreign Minister Salah el Bitar conceded that the much-advertised threat of Turkish attack was not worth debating, and dropped Syria's demand for investigation...
...news conference later, Syrian Foreign Minister Salah Bitar declared that Syria was endangered as long as Turkish troops concentrate near the Syrian-Turkish frontier...
...Aleppo!" In the U.N., Syrian Foreign Minister Salah el Bitar, sounding more than ever like a Soviet ventriloquist's dummy, demanded a full-scale debate on "the threat to Syria's security." Said he: "The Turkish troops have apparently been given a slogan, 'To Aleppo!', which they now publicly repeat." Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko delightedly expanded the charge: "Apparently," said he, "the intention of the U.S.A. is to employ in Syria the method it resorted to in suppressing the independence of Guatemala." U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge promptly welcomed "an opportunity for a full airing...