Word: hafez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opposed by hard-line Likud members of the unity government, led by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, thus putting a heavy strain on the coalition. Moreover, the decision to leave Lebanon is fraught with uncertainties and hazards. It marked a victory of sorts for Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has opposed a negotiated pullback agreement between Israel and Lebanon. But, above all, Jerusalem's move shifted a new and perhaps unbearable burden onto the frail government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel: the maintenance of peace and order in southern Lebanon after the Israeli departure. If the weak...
...head-table occupant who attracted the most attention at a state banquet in Damascus last week was neither the guest of honor, French President François Mitterrand, nor the host, Syrian President Hafez Assad. Instead, it was Assad's younger brother Rifaat, 47, one of Syria's three Vice Presidents, making his first appearance after returning from a mysterious six-month exile in Switzerland and France. Rifaat's sudden re-emergence seemed to indicate that he might soon resume his public duties, which include overseeing Syria's state security apparatus, and that he might attain...
...October and in talks with presidential envoys subsequently sent to Europe. Among his intentions is to regain command of Syria's elite Defense Companies, a position he lost earlier this year, in part because of his rash use of the unit during a three-way power struggle. Hafez Assad, 54, was then recuperating from a heart attack. By all appearances in recent months, the President's recovery has been complete...
Hussein was alluding to the stubborn efforts by Syrian President Hafez Assad to block the session. Though Assad failed, he ordered several Syrian-based factions of the P.L.O. to boycott the proceedings. The meeting thus deepened divisions within the troubled organization, with both pro-Arafat and anti-Arafat sides claiming the cause of a Palestinian homeland as their own. Whether or not the rift hardens into a permanent split, the internecine conflict promises to weaken further the organization that has come to represent the hopes of 4 million Palestinians...
...Syrian President Hafez Assad visited Moscow last week, his Chief of Staff, Major General Hikmat Shehabi, declared that Syria was prepared to dispatch thousands of volunteers to fight the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. Thereafter, the Israelis let it be known that they might not leave the areas in which they face Syrian forces after all. That was an apparent effort to press the Syrians to make some tangible concessions on the security question...