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...country by U.S. Air Force transports. An army of 19,000 policemen, soldiers and government agents were on guard. Troops lined the 32-mile route from the airport to Jerusalem. A cordon sanitaire encircled every area that the President visited. His movements were shadowed by three helicopters-a command center, a troop carrier and a flying medical team...
...attack, which was carried out by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, had been timed to coincide with President Nixon's Middle Eastern trip. The raiders hoped to capture hostages whom they could exchange for comrades held in Israeli jails. They also wanted to demonstrate to Nixon that hard-core Palestinians will reject any peace settlement that does not return their former homeland to them...
...intrigued by "God's chain of command" as assumed by the Rev. William William Gothard [May 20]. God to husband to wife to child. Interesting,but why would She do a thing like that...
...major elements that constitute power in Syria: the army, the Baath Party Organization, Parliament and the Council of Ministers. Routine matters are handled by the Cabinet and the 186-man Parliament, while all issues affecting Syria's security are referred to the 21-member Baath Party High Command, acting as a court of appeal. But it is the army that wields the final sanction, and during the disengagement discussions with Israel, Assad made sure that his Defense Minister, Major General Mustafa Tlas, and other senior military officers were intimately involved...
...predominantly Sunni Moslem, although there are 1.5 million Christians, 500,000 Shia Moslems, mostly Alawites and Druzes. Assad is a member of the Alawites, an impoverished minority that has risen to power because of its strong representation in the military. But the Alawites who dominate the military high command could not rule without Sunni support. General Tlas, for example, is a Sunni and acknowledged to be the second most powerful man in Syria...