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...Syrians are more practiced in this than anyone else." Possibly they are; last week's military coup d'etat was the seventh in 13 years. It came six months to the day after the last, in which the army shattered Syria's link with Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt...
...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 for dissolution of the pork-barreling Assembly, declared themselves...
...military junta probably will not force the nation back with Nasser's Egypt despite their liking for his brand of socialism. One day there might be elections again, but it would not be soon...
...make democracy work. Yet such is the magic of the word that dictators use it to justify their own brand of one-man rule. Indonesia's Sukarno and Nepal's King Mahendra call it "guided democracy," Guinea's Touré has "total democracy," Egypt's Nasser his "presidential democracy." The strongman most entitled to claim "democracy" for an essentially undemocratic system may well be Pakistan's benevolent dictator, President Mohammed Ayub Khan. His catch phrase: "basic democracies...
Obviously trying to reduce resentment all around, the new Premier declared a moratorium on Jordan's anti-Nasser broadcasts, proclaimed a widespread political amnesty. He also ordered a probe of Jordanian officials suspected of corruption, promised to devote more care to the problems of the country's Palestinian population. All this pleased the unruly Palestinians, who saw other good omens: a heavy rainfall will mean good crops for 1962, and Wasfi's appointment coincided with the birth of Hussein's first son, Prince Abdullah, borne him by his 20-year-old British wife Toni...