Word: nasserism
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...Syria, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser was gone but not forgotten. And even though the Syrian army last fall broke the four-year-old union with Egypt and brought to power a civilian government, nobody in the army wanted to go back to the bad old days of government indifference to social problems...
...army corps was not united on what next. Some just wanted a left-of-center government free of Egyptian domination. A younger group of officers, especially those in the Aleppo garrison in the north, wanted a rebirth of the union with Egypt as well as a return to Nasser's all-out socialist policies...
...Chief General Abdel Karim Zahreddin, a middle-of-the-roader, tried to get the two factions together in the middle-of-the-road town of Horns. Up from ancient Damascus came the conservative, high-ranking officers who supported General Zahreddin; down from Aleppo in the north came hotheaded, pro-Nasser junior officers of Colonel Louis Atassi. After a nightlong acrimonious debate, the officers emerged smiling into the daylight to announce complete agreement...
...Abdel Karim Nahlawi, a ringleader of the original coup, and six of his more conservative associates were denounced for "seeking personal power" and exiled to Switzerland (each was consoled with $3,000 in expense money from the national treasury). The Damascus high command promised to rule the country with Nasser socialism, minus Nasser, and agreed to a national plebiscite on the question of reunion with Egypt and an eventual return to what was described as "clean democracy...
Road to Aleppo. Returning to Aleppo, the pro-Nasser officers were greeted by jubilant crowds of soldiers, students, police and workers singing Nasser songs and shouting Nasser slogans. Huge new color pictures of Nasser billowed from office buildings and military headquarters. Nasser partisans seized control of Aleppo radio and practically declared war on Damascus by announcing that "free officers" were in control of northern Syria and demanding instant union with Egypt. "We belong heart and soul to Nasser!" cried the announcer. "We are his lion cubs! Long live Arab unity...