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...General Abdel Karim Zahreddin, down to the lowliest private in the army. When Zahreddin severed Syria's union with Egypt 17 months ago, he had profited from the nation's revulsion against the police state and harsh economic controls imposed by Nasser. But Syrians, passionate believers in Arab unity, also felt guilty about breaking the bonds. Wispy President Nazem El-Koudsi sighed, "The trouble with Syrians is that we are never concerned with just our own problems but with issues affecting all Arabs...
...regime survived three major and countless minor conspiracies, but once Iraq rebelled against Dictator Kassem in the name of Arab unity, the Syrian, regime was doomed. Six Cabinet ministers re signed discreetly, and when members of the Baath (Renaissance) party were asked to replace them, they refused. Desperate President Koudsi eagerly offered to unite Syria with the new revolutionary government of Iraq but received no official reply from Baghdad. Schools were closed to prevent student demonstrations against the government, and tanks and armored cars patrolled the streets of Damascus...
Damascus radio went on the air proclaiming the Baathist slogans of "Unity, Freedom, Socialism!" A jubilant Syrian army officer at a border post said. ''We want unity, not with Nasser, but with all Arabs." As in Iraq, the Syrian National Council of the Revolutionary Command insisted on anonymity. The new 20-man Cabinet has only two military men, and the Baath party is strongly represented. New Premier Salah El-Bitar, 45, is a former Syrian Foreign Minister and a Baathist with strong sympathies toward Arab unity. A tall, hulking Damascene with dark, brooding eyes and brilliantined hair...
...revolutions within a single month have thus put the Baathists into power in two nations stretching from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. The Baath party strongly emphasizes unity with all Arab states, including Egypt, but rejects dictatorship by anyone, ineluding Nasser. Its philosophy calls for ittihad, loose federation, and pledges overall allegiance to uruba, a pervasive Pan-Arabism. When news of the Syrian revolt reached the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, a military parade was transformed into a victory celebration, with long lines of citizens and students snake-dancing through the city. In Cairo, Nasser's men hailed...
Costanza died soon after, and Frederick grew up in Palermo, an unseen and uncared-for ward of the Pope. The boy, living almost as a beggar child, learned Arabic from the seaport's Arab sailors. He was to learn more than half a dozen other languages, including Hebrew and English. At 14 he was crowned King of Sicily. He held no power and had neither arms nor money. But by his late teens, chiefly by force of an agile mind and a personality radiantly well suited to rabble-and noble-rousing, he had seized control of his inherited German...