Word: dawalibi
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...such demagogic nonsense that bothered Colonel Shishekly, who, in a very practical way, is probably more pro-West than most Syrian politicians. The trouble was that Dawalibi wanted to take over the Defense Ministry-the power spot in the cabinet-controlling army, police and gendarmerie. That was a post usually reserved for a Shishekly stooge...
...evening, a 47-year-old, silken-mouthed Syrian politician named Marouf Dawalibi announced that he had formed a cabinet, Syria's first in three weeks. Dawalibi, a bearded law professor with a French wife, is a man of accumulated hates. He is anti-British, anti-Israeli, anti-American. He once said that "the Arabs would prefer a thousandfold to become a Soviet republic rather than a prey to world Jewry...