Word: salah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moral Lepers. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser put his finger on two culprits: 1) Michel Aflak, the fraii; intellectual Christian Arab who founded the Baath Socialist Party; and 2) Salah Bitar, Aflak's disciple and the present Baathist Premier of Syria. Denouncing the two as fascists, secessionists, traitors, moral lepers and "seekers after power," Nasser blasted them as solely responsible for the collapse of the unity agreement concluded last April between Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The agreement called for a merger of the three nations into a greater United Arab Republic, but in the months since...
...gamble three weeks ago by Syrian Nasserites that by yanking their six ministers from the Cabinet they could bring the government down, touch off street rioting, and snatch control from the dominant Baath Party in the resulting confusion. Up to a point, that was exactly what happened. Baathist Premier Salah Bitar had to quit; his replacement was Dr. Sami Jundi, supposedly a Nasser admirer. But as it turned out, Jundi, too, had Baathist leanings; after three sleepless days and nights of trying to persuade both sides to cooperate, he wearily stepped aside to let another Premier seek a solution...
...crime, then how do you expect me to cooperate with them?" What set off Amer's flood of rhetorical questions was the threat posed to Nasser's dream of Arab unity by the gyrations of Syria's Baath Party leaders, headed by tall, lugubrious Premier Salah Bitar. The Baath leadership wants Arab unity as much as does Nasser, but it has refused to let the party be drowned in an all-encompassing Nasserite national front. The conflict became acute last month when the regime began purging the Syrian army of pro-Nasser officers and noncoms. In retaliation...
Nasser agreed completely. "We refuse, if anybody asks us,'' he said, "to form a nominal union for outward appearances.'' Later, he fervently told a Syrian delegation headed by Baath Party Leaders Michel Aflak and Salah El-Bitar: "We believe the tide of revolutionary union in this generation is a historic opportunity which will not repeat itself." He also suggested that the Baathists broaden their new Syrian government to bring in popular-that is, Nasserite-elements...
...border post said. ''We want unity, not with Nasser, but with all Arabs." As in Iraq, the Syrian National Council of the Revolutionary Command insisted on anonymity. The new 20-man Cabinet has only two military men, and the Baath party is strongly represented. New Premier Salah El-Bitar, 45, is a former Syrian Foreign Minister and a Baathist with strong sympathies toward Arab unity. A tall, hulking Damascene with dark, brooding eyes and brilliantined hair, he once signed a manifesto denouncing union with Egypt, but later advocated close federal ties...