Word: syria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months Syria's militantly leftist regime has protested the steady march to political moderation in the Arab world. Last week Damascus itself joined the parade...
Indeed, the only diehard Middle Eastern nation left on the militant left at the moment is Syria, where the ruling socialist Baath Party clearly feels betrayed by the new look. "Arab revolutionaries cannot fail to note the current reactionary tide in the Middle East," said the chief party newspaper in Damascus last week. However the hot heads in Syria might feel, the rest of the Middle East was plainly looking forward to the welcome touch of cooler, quieter political weather...
Judging by past experience, Bazzaz' chances were not bright. As an early Moslem conqueror put it: "If you want a people to order and be obeyed, you have Egypt; if you want a people to feed and be obeyed, you have Syria; but if you waift a people who revolt against wrong and right, you have Iraq...
Asifa's irregulars operate mainly out of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. They have close links with the year-old Palestine Liberation Organization, which, with the endorsement of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, has raised and trained a 7,000-man army, helped by millions of dollars in cash contributions extracted from the 1,750,000 Palestinian Arabs scattered throughout the Arab world. But unlike P.L.O., Asifa takes orders from no Arab government. Asifa leaders are contemptuous of Nasser's recent warning to the Arab world against involvement in a premature war with Israel. A man close...
Gunned Tractors. But Nasser had already made a withering reply in his Cairo speech: "Our Syrian brothers say, 'Let us attack Israel tomorrow or the day after.' Israel has attacked Syria's diversion projects. But if Israel attacks Syria, do I attack Israel? That means letting Israel set the time for the battle. But is this the wise course? Is it logical that I attack Israel when there are 50,000 Egyptian soldiers in Yemen...