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...absence of facts, rumors had a heyday in the bazaars: 375 had been arrested, the security chief had been replaced by a proCommunist. Gradually, one pattern became clearer. Most of those arrested were right-wing nationalists, Al Baath socialists, and other supporters of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...northern region" has been headed for a housecleaning. In that speech Nasser complained that his Damascus regime had turned up a big deficit and spent all its reserves. Though he did not say so publicly, he was displeased by other developments. He had banned party politics; yet the Baath (socialist) party, the Commu nists and others went on politicking. Syrian Vice President Akram Hourani was acting more like a Prime Minister in Damascus than an executor of decisions taken in Cairo. Syrian Communists still published the newspaper Al Noor in Damascus, and embarrassed Nasser by pouring a reported...
Thereafter Hourani allied himself with whoever was in power, astutely broke with them just in time. On the side, he worked at building up his own new Socialist-Baath Party. Three years ago Hourani helped put the skids under then President-Dictator Adid Shishekly, saw his Baathists win 16 seats in Parliament and became fast friends with Moscow-trained Khaled Bakdash, self-styled secretary-general of the Communist Party and the first admitted Communist ever elected to an Arab Parliament (in most Arab countries the Communist Party is outlawed). Hourani and Bakdash speedily recruited Syrian Intelligence Chief Colonel Abdel Hamid...