Word: hafez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With world attention riveted on rising Arab-Israeli tensions, TIME has steadily increased its reporting of the people and events in the center of the conflict. Our coverage has included interviews with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Assad and two talks with Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat, along with a cover story on the P.L.O. In these and other articles we told the Arab side of the tragic story. This week our cover focuses on embattled Israel. We present an interview with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, an account of the arms lineup stocked by both sides since...
...Rabat Hilton. "This summit conference has been like a wedding feast for the Palestinians," said Yasser Arafat. After four days of sometimes bitter debate, the Arab summit?attended by such luminaries as Saudi Arabia's King Faisal, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, Algeria's Houari Boumedienne and Syria's Hafez Assad?had radically and dramatically altered the Middle East situation. The leaders, including even Jordan's acquiescent King Hussein, for the first time had unanimously endorsed Arafat instead of Hussein as "sole legitimate" spokesman for all Palestinians, including the 640,000 who live under Israeli occupation on the West Bank...
...hardliners, such as Iraq and Libya, insist that only armed struggle can persuade Israel to yield. Syria's President Hafez Assad was willing to negotiate a settlement but insisted that it be a once-and-for-all deal worked out in a Geneva conference. Then there were the moderates, headed by Egypt's President Anwar Sadat who supports U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's gradualist approach-"a little more territory for a little more peace...
Snarled Traffic. Rumblings of the Cyprus crisis echoed all around the Mediterranean. Syria placed its forces on maximum alert, and President Hafez Assad canceled a state visit to Yugoslavia. The Egyptian government ordered its navy to stay at home...
...refugees cheered up, however, when President Hafez Assad arrived dressed in military uniform. Surrounded by excited crowds who tossed flowers, cheered and chanted, "Welcome Assad, the liberator!", the President kissed the Syrian flag and raised it to the top of a makeshift flagpole...