Word: kassem
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Though both groups have the same goal of unity, each proposes a separate path. Nasser believes in centralized, authoritarian control. The Baath Party favors "collective leadership" and a democratic parliamentary government. As the talks proceeded, Syria's Deputy Premier Nihad El-Kassem reportedly forced the Baathists in his delegation to accept the Nasserite proposals on a threat of resigning from office...
...September ousted the centuries-old dynasty of the Imam and installed a "republic" that has ever since been propped up by 20,000 Egyptian troops sent in by Gamal Abdel Nasser. In two bloody days' work last month, Iraqi army officers deposed and killed psychotic Dictator Abdul Karim Kassem. Last week, on a quiet, grey Friday morning, the infection reached Syria...
...regime survived three major and countless minor conspiracies, but once Iraq rebelled against Dictator Kassem in the name of Arab unity, the Syrian, regime was doomed. Six Cabinet ministers re signed discreetly, and when members of the Baath (Renaissance) party were asked to replace them, they refused. Desperate President Koudsi eagerly offered to unite Syria with the new revolutionary government of Iraq but received no official reply from Baghdad. Schools were closed to prevent student demonstrations against the government, and tanks and armored cars patrolled the streets of Damascus...
...much of his claim for the title of Arab leadership in 1961, when an army coup wrenched Syria from its short-lived merger with Egypt in the United Arab Republic. That left Nasser without a single Arab ally, and surrounded by such virulent enemies as Iraq's Dictator Kassem and the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Then came last month's Iraqi revolution and the overthrow of Kassem. No one could blame Egypt's leader for harking back to old dreams of Arab grandeur, for this new man in Baghdad-President Abdul Salam Aref...
Jail for the Dog. In Baghdad, new President Aref and his colleagues were too busy learning how to run a country to pay much attention. The slain Kassem, now dubbed "the mad tyrant," had quarreled with all his neighbors. Aref was restoring trade relations with Egypt, imports from Lebanon and exports to little Kuwait, the oil-rich principality Kassem once tried to take over. Tidying up another national problem, Aref sent a helicopter north to pick up two delegates of the Kurdish rebels in the hope that he might negotiate an end to the bloody civil war that has tied...