Word: hafez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Damascus, Syrian President Hafez Assad jailed perhaps 200 members of his own Baath Party amid dissident rumbles-including rumors of coup-against the longest-lasting government (4½ years) Syria has had since gaining independence...
Like other Arab leaders, Syria's President Hafez Assad acknowledged Sadat's initiative as a clever ploy that would put Israel on the defensive and perhaps even contribute to a straining of the U.S.-Israeli relationship. On the other hand, Assad was characteristically leary of any Egyptian action that might reduce tension in the Middle East without at the same time leading toward a settlement between Syria and Israel. Not that the Syrian President is necessarily opposed to bilateral negotiations when they serve his purpose. He even suggested to Kissinger last month that if there should be progress...
...this point with the P.L.O., particularly in the wake of the Fatah terrorist attack on Tel Aviv's Savoy Hotel two weeks ago (TIME, March 17). That raid, as P.L.O. spokesmen made clear, was designed to discredit the Secretary's peace-keeping mission. Last week Syrian President Hafez Assad tried to pull the Palestinians into the negotiations. Assad, who has switched significantly from opposing second-stage talks between Israel and Egypt to demanding a role in them for Syria, suddenly proposed a joint Syrian-Palestinian military command that would continue to fight for the recovery of Palestinian land...
...week's end, it was unclear how much the fedayeen raid had compromised the negotiating position of Sadat, who is eager for further peace moves but worries that making a separate deal with Israel would seemingly isolate him from the Syrians and the Palestinians. Syrian President Hafez Assad and the P.L.O. have both been putting pressure on Sadat to maintain a unified Arab front, which lately has shown some signs of strain. Two weeks ago the Palestinians publicly announced that they were sending a delegation of second-ranking P.L.O. executives to Cairo to discuss the Kissinger negotiations with Sadat...
Kissinger was equally blunt about the perimeters of realistic concessions in the course of a five-hour talk with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus, and his odds on success probably dropped there as a result. Assad fears that Syria might be closed out of negotiations by Kissinger and Sadat. Complaining about "turtle-pace diplomacy," he has begun to press other Arab leaders for their support of either simultaneous talks on all fronts or a return to formal negotiations in Geneva...