Word: gamal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with so many countries born in the past 40 years, Syria's modern history has been a saga of coups and countercoups. In 1958 Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser merged his country with Syria to form the United Arab Republic, but the union lasted only 3½ years. In 1963 the Arab Socialist Resurrection (or Baath) Party overthrew President Nazem Koudsi and seized power in Damascus...
...anomaly, deriving its strength from a position of inherent weakness. From 1976 to 1982 it was the single strongest influence on the Arab world, a threat not only to Israel, its declared enemy, but to every Arab government that did not offer it support. Not since Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser has a Middle Eastern leader embodied Arab nationalist aspirations as did P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat. He had no country of his own to run, but in the eyes of many Palestinians he enjoyed greater legitimacy than most of the Arab world's leaders...
Israel, taking advantage of Russia's difficulties (and taking for granted U.S. preoccupation with a presidential election), invaded Egypt. Great Britain and France, aggression-bound, moved in, determined to overthrow Gamal Abdel Nasser and recover the Suez Canal...
...place in Havana, Castro tried, but failed, to have the conference formally recognize the Soviet Union as the natural ally of the nonaligned. In contrast, last week's meeting returned to the principle established by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1961, when they founded the movement as an organization of nations that wanted to remain independent of the superpowers. Said a State Department official in Washington: "It's quite clear that the nonaligned movement is undergoing a process of genuine reappraisal and self-searching. There...
Domestic opposition to Hussein's rule has diminished over the years. At the beginning of his reign, the King permitted a large degree of democracy. But freedom bred instability, as radical Palestinian groups and supporters of Hussein's bitter enemy, the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, sought to undermine his regime. Hussein now rules as an absolute monarch. The return of political stability has promoted an unprecedented period of prosperity. Unemployment is low; the economy, based on agriculture, mining and tourism, is growing at an annual rate of about 10%. More than half the population lives today...