Word: syria
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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...
...King Farouk-Nasser last week made the break with the Baathists official. Charging that most of the "ardent Syrians" who originally put their signatures to the agreement are now in Baath jails, Nasser announced that Egypt would no longer be a party to the agreement while Baath ruled in Syria...
...gunfire lasted for four hours, and three Syrian MIG fighter planes-serving either the government, the rebels, or their own whim-knocked out the radio transmitter. When the radio limped back on the air, it was still in government hands. The strongman of Syria's ruling Baath (Renaissance) Party, General Mohammed Hafez, who is both Defense Minister and army chief of staff, broadcast that the effort "to disturb the peace" had been crushed. Next day he announced the break in the rules of Syrian-style coups: eight rebel military men and twelve civilians had been executed. Hafez blamed...
...Mideastern observers could not understand why Nasserites would begin a revolt on the very day that Syria's President Louai Atassi was flying to Cairo to make concessions to Nasser...
Even Baath party newspapers conceded that Syria was at last ready to accept Nasser's demand for a "national front" federation in which his supporters would have equal strength with Baath. After a ten-hour conference with Nasser, President Atassi flew home and rushed to the military hospital to kiss the soldiers wounded in defending his regime. At week's end Damascus radio was still making brief, shrill broadcasts insisting that the revolt was crushed, but the country remained buttoned up against the outside world, with borders, airports and harbors sealed...