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...Damascus last week, Nazem El-Koudsi, 56, was beginning to feel like a man trapped in a revolving door. As President of Syria, Koudsi was taken prisoner last month by army officers overthrowing his government, and hustled off to jail together with most of his Cabinet...
Engineered largely by the same officers who led the September revolt, last week's uprising had advance warning. Ever since President Nazem El-Koudsi was elected in December, there had been widespread grumbling at his regime's conservative measures: watering down the land-reform system to favor landowners, repealing nationalization laws passed when Nasser's socialists were in charge. Two months ago demonstrations against the government broke out among students and workers. Early last week a delegation of young officers called on President Koudsi at El Mohjerin palace to present their demands for sweeping reforms. They called...
...army had chosen just the right time for the coup. Not only were Koudsi and his Premier, Marouf Dawalibi, in disfavor, but the army's reputation was at an alltime high, since it had performed creditably during the Israeli raids a fortnight earlier. The soldiers locked up President Koudsi, Premier Dawalibi, and some 90 deputies and administration officials in a prison hospital...