Word: opthalmologist
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...cooperate." Assad's words may be true in ways he never intended, however. He's nothing like Saddam, personally: An accident of history - the car accident that killed his older brother, who had long been groomed as their autocratic father's heir - thrust the then 38-year-old opthalmologist who had been living in genteel London into command of a regime grounded on a brutality that would be instantly recognizable to Saddam. Bashar's indecisive handling of the job has left the elite most involved in the regime deeply unhappy at his performance, while Syria's long-repressed citizenry sees...
...only must the thirtysomething opthalmologist bachelor muster the requisite skill, experience and - inevitably - ruthlessness to navigate the treacherous waters of Syria's domestic politics, he's also got to modernize an economically decrepit state squeezed between the Israel-Turkey alliance and the hostile regime in Iraq, while sustaining an increasingly complex policing role in neighboring Lebanon. "Bashar's key allies will be Iran and Saudi Arabia," says Hamad. "Iran provides the strategic counterweight to Israel, Turkey and the U.S., while Saudi Arabia ensures the flow of financial support from the Gulf States...
...parliament immediately passed a constitutional amendment putting aside the rule that the president had to be 40 or over. However, the arrival to power of Bashar may intensify a power struggle that has bubbled under the surface since Assad, who ruled from 1970, first brought the London-based opthalmologist home two years ago to assume the role of reluctant heir - as late as March, Bashar insisted to a London-based newspaper that he had no presidential ambitions. And in a twist as familiar in "The Lion King" as it was in the royal succession in neighboring Jordan, Hafez Assad...
...before adding the new fee for the eye exams, administrators forgot to tell their chief opthalmologist, Hardenbergh...
...abroad three times for eye problems, most recently in 1979. Although Soviet officials last month asked Bonner to leave the country immediately, she postponed the trip until her husband recovered from his fast. At the end of November, Bonner plans to go to Italy to consult an opthalmologist, Yankelevich said...