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Anyone who thinks the death of Syria's ruler Hafez Assad [WORLD, June 19] has dealt a blow to peace in the Middle East is wrong. Assad wanted to force Israel to meet all his demands before the two countries resumed talks. Syria's economy is a shambles, and its people live in poverty. Assad murdered and tortured his own people. JERRY LEVY Walnut Creek, Calif...
...Georgia, once: abbr. 30. Get the lead out of your shoes 31. Its President wants France to write off some debts 33. Word on Spanish air mail 35. Tolkien tree creature 36. Thurmond has petitioned him to lift the ban on Shoeless Joe 38. First name used to be Hafez; now it's Bashar 40. Rubbernecker 41. Legislation that would eliminate the need for paper contracts 42. Deer sirs 44. Antidiscrimination agcy. Thomas once chaired 45. Allied victory site of 7/18/44 47. Its price has skyrocketed in Chicago 48. Coiner of the word stabile 50. Kind...
...Jimmy Stewart syllables 4. Dervish's faith 9. Make some zigzags, perhaps 12. Socks, e.g. 13. Hafez Assad's Foreign Minister for the last 14 years of his rule 14. Inflation-fighting WW II org. 15. 14 years later, the govt. says it's going to shut it down 17. Left Coast luggage tag 18. What Rosie did 19. Flying start? 21. Yemeni port 22. __/Faulkner, book award 24. Barbra's Funny Girl co-star 27. Pimlico shape 29. Sierra __, hardly a holiday spot for the British 30. It approved AT&T's acquisition of MediaOne 33. Foy patriarch...
...DIED. HAFEZ ASSAD, 69, President of Syria who held an iron grip on power for three decades; of heart failure; in Damascus (see World...
...With Hafez Assad's death, the spotlight turns to his son Bashar, 34, a mild-mannered ophthalmologist and perhaps the most unlikely political heir among the new generation of Arab leaders who have started assuming power in the Middle East. Indeed, Bashar's older brother Basil, a daring, charismatic figure, had been favored to follow in their father's footsteps until he was killed in a traffic accident...