| Description | Folder of newspapers, press statements and other documents issued by the Syrian branch of the Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party. These include an attack on Saddam Hussein and Tariq Aziz, criticising the 'treasonous lies of the criminal' [al-taṣrīhāt al-khiyānat lilmujrim] Saddam with regard to statements about normalizing relations with Israel (January 1983) and numerous issues of the Ba'athist newspaper 'Sawt al-Jamahir.'. The Ba'athists split after 1966 and the Syrian party rejected the direction taken in Baghdad after the 1968 coup. |