Word: hafez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet leader looked more than ever like a Russian zhuravl, or crane, as he bent forward to speak to the diminutive Chinese envoy. By contrast, Andropov's other greetings seemed lukewarm, even toward such friends of the Soviet Union as Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Syrian President Hafez Assad...
...guerrillas and 30,000 Syrian and 70,000 Israeli troops. Special Envoy Philip Habib and others were working on a detailed plan for phased withdrawals that will be presented to Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir this week in Washington. But many obstacles must be overcome. Last week Syrian President Hafez Assad informed Habib and his deputy in the Middle East, U.S. Ambassador Morris Draper, that Israeli forces would have to withdraw first. In the past the Israelis have insisted that the P.L.O. and Syrian forces had to depart before they would pull out. Israel, however, is unlikely to leave until...
...lion at Fez was P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat, who was greeted as a hero by everybody except Syria's President Hafez Assad, who was annoyed that Arafat, when he was finally evacuated from Beirut two weeks ago, failed to stop off in Damascus to thank the Syrians for the support they had given the P.L.O...
...quest for Lebanese independence may prove equally illusory. For Syrian President Hafez Assad, whose prestige was shaken by his army's poor showing against the Israelis, maintaining a presence in the Bekaa Valley would provide a buffer against any future Israeli advances toward Syria. It would also give Hafez Assad a larger role in the Arab world. "As long as Assad has a foot in Lebanon, he is an Arab leader," says American University's Perlmutter. "Without it, he isn't." The Israelis, who want to avoid the quagmire of an extended occupation, might nonetheless use their...
...South Yemen, have lost prestige in the Arab world as a result of their failure to aid the Palestinians. Says Peter Duignan, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution: "The image of Arabs standing together has been shattered." The Iraqis were particularly angry at Syria's Hafez Assad and Libya's Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, both for their "betrayal" of the P.L.O. and for their support of Iran in the gulf war. Since that conflict began 23 months ago, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has moved away from the hard-line states and into the circle of moderate...