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...World section story on Syria and its pivotal position in the Middle East peace equation, TIME Correspondents Karsten Prager and William Marmon were granted a rare interview with Syria's President Hafez Assad. Prager also talked to two of Assad's closest advisers: Major General Naji Jamil, head of the Syrian air force, and Major General Mustapha Tlas, the Defense Minister. Following an old Syrian gift-giving custom, Jamil presented Prager with a small air-force pin, smilingly suggesting that it might make it easier for Prager to be a military correspondent in Syria in the unhappy event...
Both Lebanon and Cyprus refused to allow the jetliner to land, and the terrorists finally ordered it to put down at Damascus. Syrian Air Force Commander Major General Naji Jamil tried to talk the skyjackers into releasing their hostages "for humanitarian reasons and for the sake of Arab patriotism." When the guerrillas refused, the Syrians refueled the plane, provided food and treated an injured terrorist for a head wound...
...state and, since Kassem himself refused to testify, there was also nothing but hearsay to contradict Aref's claim that when he drew a pistol in Kassem's presence last October he had only done so in a hysterical attempt to kill himself. Several leaders, including Brigadier Naji Talib, a top figure in the shadowy "free officers' group" that plotted the July revolt, testified in Aref's behalf...
Under the intoning guru's direction, the Shakta women and Naji took off their blouses and put them in a large earthenware jar, and the group drank liquor and feasted on goat flesh. But when Naji discovered the meaning of the ceremony, she refused to participate further. "You must take part in our sacrament," said the guru. Husband Odia also insisted. When her blouse was drawn from the jar, Naji ran off into the darkness...
Shamed by her performance, Odia followed her. "After I cut off her nose," he told the police, "she begged forgiveness and asked me not to report the matter to the police, but I refused to listen." When the police reached Odia's hut, they found that Naji had hanged herself. She had been faithful, after her own fashion...