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...shift grew out of a split in Syria's ruling Pan-Arab Baath Party between General Salah Jadid, leader of a powerful clique of pro-Peking officers, and Strongman General Amin Hafez, top dog in Syria since 1963. At the Casablanca conference of Arab leaders last September, Hafez pledged Syria to an agreement not to meddle in other states' internal affairs. Objecting, the Jadid group blamed a "right-wing reactionism" for the moderating tendencies in other Arab nations, argued for Syrian leadership to restore the "progressive Arab socialist outlook...
...Arab country and least of all on the U.A.R., our biggest sister." Top officials in Yemen, Morocco and Lebanon took the Soviets to task for being "unfair" to an Arab neighbor. Arab propagandists took up the cudgels in their own fashion. "Communism," the Baghdad daily Al-Fajr al-Jadid explained to its readers, "is to all intents and purposes a Jewish concept." READ ABOUT THE PART PLAYED BY THE ISRAELI COMMUNIST PARTY IN GUIDING THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRAQ, blared a hot-selling pamphlet in Cairo, obviously subsidized by the government at 8? a copy...
...committee of the Iraq Press Association on the vague ground that they were "serving Communism and deriving their inspiration exclusively from Sputniks." Taking over as the new press-association president, pro-Nasser Publisher Al Haj Taha al Fayez rapped out an angry editorial in his daily Al-Fajr al-Jadid: "The sun of the Communists has set. The Communist countries are falling to bits through starvation and ruination...
...guns and munitions from Syria, and several of them seemed certain to be publicly hanged; 20 others were swept up by the police as members of a gang of terrorists and bomb throwers. The clandestine radios screamed for Hussein's death; the Damascus newspaper Al Nasr al Jadid, jeered: "Jordan has turned into a huge prison...
...from, not toward, France. It was hard to see how that trend could be reversed by the offer of a pact which would, in effect, force both governments to ratify permanent French control of Algeria. Speaking for Algerians, Tunisians and Moroccans alike, Morocco's semiofficial Al Ahd Al Jadid last week snapped: "The French proposition is an effort to turn attention away from the Algerian drama and to set a trap with the object of consolidating colonialism in North Africa on a new basis...