Word: hafez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could be broken. Syria's decision to end its four-day-long maneuvers in Lebanon defused some of the military tension, but a war of bellicose rhetoric continued. Arriving in Libya for a meeting with his hard-line colleague Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Syrian President Hafez Assad declared that the U.S.-sponsored agreement for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon was "in a state of collapse and death." Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin warned that if the Syrians attacked Israel, "we shall all have to defend our lives, our existence and our future...
...leadership. But it dramatized the weakened condition of the P.L.O. in the wake of its expulsion from Beirut last year by Israeli forces, particularly the organization's susceptibility to pressure from Syria and several other hard-line Arab countries. Despite a tepid rapprochement between Arafat and Syrian President Hafez Assad, Syria appears to be intent on controlling the P.L.O. and will not hesitate to try to undermine Arafat's authority in the process...
...Lebanon were actually prepared to leave. It was understood by the three countries that Israel would not withdraw its estimated 38,000 troops from Lebanon until the 50,000 Syrian troops and the 10,000 to 15,000 Palestine Liberation Organization commandos had first been removed, and Syrian President Hafez Assad has made it clear that he has no intention of cooperating...
...deal was based on a simultaneous withdrawal of Syrian and Palestine Liberation Organization forces. When U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz flew to the Syrian capital of Damascus, capping two weeks of shuttle diplomacy that had brought about the Israeli-Lebanese accord, he learned that Syrian President Hafez Assad had a long list of objections...
...resupplying Syria with large quantities of highly sophisticated weapons. The Soviet aim has been not merely to replace equipment lost when Syria tried to blunt Israel's invasion of Lebanon last June, but to increase Soviet influence in the region by offering the regime of Syrian President Hafez Assad more and better materiel than he had before. Moscow, moreover, has added a new dimension to its involvement in Syria by installing SA-5 missile bases that have to be manned by Soviet troops and technicians. Says a West European diplomat in Damascus: "For the first time, the Soviets have...