Word: syrians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle East last week involved a country whose politics are murky even at the best of times. Is Syria's President Hafez Assad in serious trouble because of Lebanon? Israeli intelligence officials, no friends of Assad obviously, predicted that Syria "is on the eve of a coup." Syrian tank units, the Israelis said, had been pulled back to Damascus to protect the President. Palestinians in Beirut, who are also hostile to Assad's regime, insisted that Syrian army officers had been jailed for protesting their government's orders...
...Middle East expert-but the State Department does believe that Assad is under considerable pressure. TIME's Beirut bureau chief Karsten Prager, after a visit to Syria last week, confirmed that anti-Assad demonstrations had taken place in Palestinian refugee camps there and as many as 400 Syrian army officers had been detained for questioning or put under house arrest because they opposed the government line on Lebanon. But Prager found no imminent signs of a coup or precautions against one, although one Arab diplomat told him, "It is worse than ever. Assad is up to his neck...
...afternoon Vargas shouted "cherry pie" in Burbank, the customers arrived to find a calliope thumping out Thunder and Blazes, a searchlight probing the sky. and an atmosphere redolent of popcorn, frankfurters and musky jungle game. The caged tigers roared, the chimps snarled and the wild, 700-lb. Syrian bears snuffled and muttered about the heat...
Much as Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt and his National Movement wanted Franjieh out of the presidency, they feared Sarkis' election because of his reputed receptiveness to an increased Syrian military presence to restore order in Lebanon. After succeeding in getting the election postponed for one week, Jumblatt and his choice for President, Raymond Edde, 63, a Christian who had opposed Syrian intervention, kept up a running drumfire last week to delay the election until what they called Syrian "pressure" to secure Sarkis' election had ended. When they failed to halt the proceedings, both Edde and his supporters boycotted...
...Chaim Herzog dismissed Egypt's move as "a game of one-upmanship with Syria." Herzog's point was well made. Cairo and P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat have been feuding since September over Egypt's Sinai agreement with Israel. But lately Arafat has been even madder at Syrian efforts to impose peace in Lebanon and install a pro-Syrian President there, reducing the P.L.O.'s influence in the country. Suddenly last week the P.L.O. announced from Beirut that it had restored friendship with Cairo, and Egyptian Ambassador Ahmed Esmat Abdel Meguid went before the Security Council...