| The Pan-Arab tendency and movement was the political movement which stood behind the chauvinistic ideas and practices of the Baath regime. |
| In the wake of that, at college in Bagdhad, he joined the Baath party and in 1956, as Britain withdrew from Suez, he took part in an abortive coup attempt. |
| After the thugs easily overthrow the Baath party, Rudie instates a strict fundamentalist form of Rastafarianism as state religion. |
| Most have experienced nothing other than the 48-year rule of the Baath Party. |
| Syria is a Sunni-majority country chafing under rule by a clique of Allawites, a Shiite sect, who control the secular Syrian Baath. |
| Though the Syrian and Iraqi Baath parties were bitter foes, there was consolation in that both were members of a confederacy of despotisms. |
