Word: syria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle has also warned that he will retaliate by making life "unendurable to those inflicting" slights on France. He recounts with relish that when he felt the British, with U.S. backing, were elbowing France out of Lebanon and Syria, "the way the Anglo-American powers were behaving toward us justified our throwing a pebble into their diplomatic pond." The most recent pebble thrown by De Gaulle was brick-sized and caused quite a splash. He also believes France is better equipped to win support from small nations than either the U.S. or Russia, because "many states and world opinion instinctively...
Though the sessions were secret, the emerging Arab strategy was not. The summit meeting placed on Jordan, Syria and reluctant Lebanon the burden of controlling the headwaters and tributaries of the Jordan River that rise in their territory. By constructing dams and canals, the Arab states can divert the 'flow of the Yarmuk, Banias, Hasbani and Dan rivers, and thereby reduce the water level of the Jordan far below Israel's requirements...
Should this happen, it is considered almost certain that Israel will go to war and either occupy the Jordan watershed in Syria and Lebanon, or the west bank of the river. In reply, Nasser would immediately commit Egypt's armed forces in support of the Arab countries under attack. Under no illusions about Arab military inferiority, Nasser does not hope to overwhelm Israel but, instead, to call upon the U.S., the Soviet Union and the United Nations for help...
...Shadows. In Syria, Premier Salah Bitar, 52, a co-founder of the Baath Party, resigned after being accused in party councils of "self-isolation from the masses." Translation: he must make way for an ambitious, younger rival. The rival: Amin Hafez, 42, Syrian commander in chief and a top party leader, who took over as Premier. As a prelude to his swearing-in, jets whooshed overhead in salute-and to discourage any possible trouble...
...after the French left Syria, Baath had 1,000 carefully selected members, and Aflak called the first national congress in a Damascus cafe. Two years later he was strong enough to help topple a Syrian government and served in the Cabinet for three months before resigning on the ground that he was of more value to Baath outside the government than...