Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while warily returning Syria to relative normalcy after seven coups d'état in 13 years. Koudsi himself is a product of Coup No. 6, when nationalistic army officers last fall shattered the abrasive union of Syria and Egypt-and the Pan-Arab dreams of Gamal Abdel Nasser-with a swift, bloodless revolt. Elected Syria's President in December, he was then deposed and jailed by the army officers in March (Coup No. 7) for chasing one of the demons, feudalism, with insufficient vigor. Recalled by the bickering officers two weeks later, Koudsi asked Dr. Bashir El-Azmeh...
...reply to the mullah's chant, the drought that lasted straight through the four years of the United Arab Republic was broken the day after its dissolution, and the rains are now bringing the best wheat and cotton crop in a decade. Says an embittered Nasser supporter: "Rain last year would have saved Nasser, and drought this year would have brought him back." Gone with the drought is the Nasser-era police state whose oppression created the "Syrian twitch"-a quick, nervous glance over the shoulder. Although Syrian prisons hold fewer than 500 "subversives"-many of them saboteurs sent...
Gone, too, are the doctrinaire economic rules of Nasser's "Arab socialism" that grated on the traditionally free-wheeling Syrians, who love nothing more than driving a good business bargain. The bazaars of Damascus are again bustling after a long stretch of relative austerity. Says Premier Azmeh: "By its very nature, Syria lives on commerce. The Egyptians tried, but you cannot fight nature. We favor free enterprise and private business; we are against feudalism and exploitation. We want economic freedom combined with social justice." A forward step is the Euphrates dam, being built with West German Marks, which will...
Syria is still no model of stability. The regime rules with no real legal basis, since Koudsi was elected by a Parliament that has since been dissolved. The constitution that Nasser threw out has never been replaced. Although the government of Koudsi and Azmeh claims independence, it continues to rule by the leave of a quietly watchful six-man army committee. Still, political observers agree that the regime has won considerable popular support...
...Syria's greatest external threat is still Egypt's Nasser; he has never recognized the present government, and publicly treats the Syrians like so many Israelis. Egypt does not allow mail from Syria into the country, and Radio Cairo continues to fire daily diatribes at Damascus. In the past three months, pro-Nasser forces in Syria have tossed more than 100 bombs and staged several minor coup attempts. The young Nasserite officers of the Aleppo garrison, who rose against the Damascus government last April, have been separated and shifted elsewhere by the more moderate generals in control...