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...note in Benghazi was the saber-rattling declaration that the three members of the Union of Arab Republics would continue the war against Israel and even reopen the long-quiet eastern front. Visiting Cairo last week, TIME Senior Editor Ron Kriss received an explanation from Egyptian Deputy Foreign Minister Salah Gohar of what such declarations mean. "When Arabs argue," said Gohar, one of the main architects of Egypt's diplomatic strategy, "they start on opposite sidewalks and shout at one another, 'I will carve you into pieces!' and 'You'll never see another sunset...
...doused him with a bowl of soup at a dinner before their divorce in 1957. Not so. The latest shock: Dina's decision to marry an Al-Fatah guerrilla. A week before the wedding, Hussein is reported to have surreptitiously sent the bridegroom, whose code name is "Salah," a present of some $25,000. There were rumors that the gift was intended to buy Salah either out of wedlock or out of the Palestine resistance. It did neither. When Dina and Salah took their vows, it was said that Al-Fatah took the money...
...that he is, as tradition requires, a member of the Sunni, the largest Moslem sect. Assad, who appointed himself secretary-general of the ruling Baath (Renaissance) Party, demonstrated that he was really running Syria by ordering the previous secretary-general and his rival for power, Major General Salah Jadid, into exile in Egypt...
Syria, as a result of a coup in Damascus last week, may seek to join the new federation despite its geographic separation from the three other members. Defense Minister Hafez Assad, 40, staged the coup by quietly dispatching his intelligence agents to arrest President Noureddine Atassi and General Salah Jadid, who had been the strongman of Syria's extremist Baathist party. The more moderate Assad, who apparently moved to get Jadid before Jadid could get him, had been ordered to resign as Defense Minister by the Baathist congress. If he can keep control of the government, Assad might...
...originated in Syria during World War II, blending socialism with Arab nationalism. In 1961, they supported Syria's pullout from the three-year-old United Arab Republic, thus ending Nasser's dream of an Egyptian-led Arab bloc. Currently controlled by a minority Moslem faction under General Salah Jadid, who wields the real power over the party, Syria has been rocked by no fewer than 16 coups in the past 21 years, many resulting from intraparty feuds...