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...imposing list of demons, all the while warily returning Syria to relative normalcy after seven coups d'état in 13 years. Koudsi himself is a product of Coup No. 6, when nationalistic army officers last fall shattered the abrasive union of Syria and Egypt-and the Pan-Arab dreams of Gamal Abdel Nasser-with a swift, bloodless revolt. Elected Syria's President in December, he was then deposed and jailed by the army officers in March (Coup No. 7) for chasing one of the demons, feudalism, with insufficient vigor. Recalled by the bickering officers two weeks later...
From the outward look of Syria, reported TIME Correspondent George de Carvalho last week, the regime has managed well. As if in reply to the mullah's chant, the drought that lasted straight through the four years of the United Arab Republic was broken the day after its dissolution, and the rains are now bringing the best wheat and cotton crop in a decade. Says an embittered Nasser supporter: "Rain last year would have saved Nasser, and drought this year would have brought him back." Gone with the drought is the Nasser-era police state whose oppression created...
Gone, too, are the doctrinaire economic rules of Nasser's "Arab socialism" that grated on the traditionally free-wheeling Syrians, who love nothing more than driving a good business bargain. The bazaars of Damascus are again bustling after a long stretch of relative austerity. Says Premier Azmeh: "By its very nature, Syria lives on commerce. The Egyptians tried, but you cannot fight nature. We favor free enterprise and private business; we are against feudalism and exploitation. We want economic freedom combined with social justice." A forward step is the Euphrates dam, being built with West German Marks, which will...
Though thousands of pieds-noirs are unemployed, most scorn available jobs as laborers or on the docks as "Arab work." Some have turned to crime, are readily identifiable as holdup men because of their throaty accents. So alarmingly has Marseille's crime rate risen, in fact, that the central government in Paris has been forced to dispatch 800 riot troopers to the city to beef up the local police force...
Political Maturity Political parties: 1. Voters: 82%. Effective rulers are nation's dozen tribal chieftains. President Moktar Ould Daddah, 37, is popular conservative who reflects Arab rather than African policies. No daily press...