Hafez al-Assad: The Man Who Waited Too Long
… Assad got the prestige, thanks to the willingness of American presidents and secretaries of state to indulge him with futile meetings. Several Israeli prime ministers put great stock in his …
… Assad got the prestige, thanks to the willingness of American presidents and secretaries of state to indulge him with futile meetings. Several Israeli prime ministers put great stock in his …
… Assad's initial preferred successor as president was his brother Rifaat, but Rifaat attempted … –1984 when Hafez had a health scare and he was subsequently exiled. Assad's next choice …
… To be sure, since independence from France in 1946, Hafez al-Assad was the first Syrian leader who succeeded in establishing an autocratic presidential system on the Egyptian …
… One of his few Western visitors in that last year was former US president Jimmy Carter, who reported after seeing him in 1999 that Hafez al-Assad seemed “very frail.” Intelligence …
… Assad's initial preferred successor as president was his brother Rifaat, but Rifaat attempted … –1984 when Hafez had a health scare and he was subsequently exiled. Assad's next choice …
… for President Bashar al Assad to maintain the political system introduced by Hafez al Assad was one … legacies of the late Syrian President, Hafez al Assad, however, it was also common …
… Bashar al-Assad was smoothly engineered by Hafez al-Assad’… a statue of the president’s father, the late Hafez Assad. Other … or the forced overthrow of Bashar al Assad’. Footnote 36 …
… Kissinger's step-by-step diplomacy succeeded in dividing the Arabs; Tensions soon arose between Assad and Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat as they negotiated separate …
… LEAD: SYRIA'S President, Hafez al-Assad, attended the Arab summit meeting in Morocco two … SYRIA'S President, Hafez al-Assad, attended the Arab summit meeting in Morocco two …
… adviser to Hafez al-Assad. … As personal interpreter to President Hafez al-Assad, Shaaban … , sometimes with only her patron and a US president, secretary of state, or special envoy in …