Word: ittihad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...health cures," talking with other Arab leaders or simply salting away their money in foreign banks. Four others were missing-either kidnaped by nationalist rebels or in hiding. That left Hussein Ali Bayoomi, the Information Minister, as almost the lone government official in the deserted federal capital of Al Ittihad. "The government is finished," said Bayoomi. "It is gone with the wind...
...revolutions within a single month have thus put the Baathists into power in two nations stretching from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. The Baath party strongly emphasizes unity with all Arab states, including Egypt, but rejects dictatorship by anyone, ineluding Nasser. Its philosophy calls for ittihad, loose federation, and pledges overall allegiance to uruba, a pervasive Pan-Arabism. When news of the Syrian revolt reached the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, a military parade was transformed into a victory celebration, with long lines of citizens and students snake-dancing through the city. In Cairo, Nasser's men hailed...
Wailed the Communist daily Ittihad al-Shaab: "Why are most of the democratic organizations being so persecuted and so many labor and peasant union leaders rounded up?" As Communist power has weakened, moderate forces in the government, the army and the professions have gained strength, and some who suffered heavily under savage Red attacks after the revolution have met with a turn in their fortunes. Last week Premier Kassem commuted the death and life sentences of twelve top officials of the old monarchic regime...