Word: hafez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Odeh: "We will make our judgment known when we see the last Syrian soldiers withdrawing from their positions." Then, in a further effort to heal the breach between the two antagonistic countries, King Khalid of Saudi Arabia invited both Jordan's King Hussein and Syria's President Hafez Assad to Riyadh for a detailed discussion of their differences...
...boycott ringleader was Syria, which feared that it would be censured in Amman for backing non-Arab Iran against Arab Iraq. For nearly a decade, Syrian President Hafez Assad has feuded on and off with Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein. So great is Assad's anti-Baghdad antagonism that he was willing to risk isolation in the Arab world with his support of Iran. The fact that the summit was in Jordan, Iraq's staunchest Arab ally, also displeased Assad...
Hyperbole has also been a difficulty for the President and has exacerbated doubt about him. Four minutes after meeting President Hafez Assad of Syria, Carter described him before television cameras as one of his "favorite leaders," thoroughly confusing Assad, not to mention Israel. Visiting Tehran, Carter sang the praises of the Shah, then jettisoned the Iranian leader when the King of Kings began to fall; the episode was one of the sorriest in the Administration. The President's description of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as "the most serious threat to peace since the Second World War" was another...
There is piquant historical irony in the burgeoning partnership between Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein and Jordan's King Hussein. The King's cousin, King Faisal II of Iraq, was slaughtered by the Iraqi military in 1958. Hafez Assad's Syria has negotiated a phony "merger" with Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, even though Gaddafi until recently was suspected of financing the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, an underground organization dedicated to the assassination of Assad's fellow Alawites, members of a minority Muslim sect that controls the Damascus regime, and in 1976 Gaddafi sent his guerrillas into Lebanon to fight alongside Palestinians...
...military intervention. But as recent weeks have shown, the more immediate threat is indigenous turmoil. Neither presidential candidate-nor anyone else, for that matter-has an answer to that problem or to the encroachment of Soviet diplomacy, such as the friendship treaty with Syria that Presidents Leonid Brezhnev and Hafez Assad signed last week...