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Article: Reject Baath Party, U.S. Tells Iraqi Job Hopefuls
The Washington Post;  May 11, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Ministry sign a written denunciation of the Baath Party, which many apparently did, even though ... only if they publicly renounced the Baath Party that ruled the country under Saddam ... expressly reject and denounce the Baath Party and Saddam Hussein and his regime ...

Transcript: Interview: Nicholas Blanford discusses Syrian political reform ...
NPR Special;  June 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... discusses Syrian political reform and the Baath Party conference under way in Syria Host ... developments in Damascus, Syria, where the Baath Party has held power for more than 40 years ... Damascus now is the place. It's the Baath Party Congress, a political convention that ...

Article: Baath Party Remains a Presence; Senior Leaders May ...
The Washington Post;  April 10, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... member of President Saddam Hussein's Baath Party. Twenty-eight years old and a Sunni ... occupation of his city, Audi said many Baath Party members have remained in Basra and would ... equipped. He also declared his belief in Baath Party ideology, a mixture of Arab nationalism ...

Article: TWO BAATH PARTY OFFICIALS CAPTURED
United Press International;  May 27, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Press International 05-27-2003 Two Baath party officials captured WASHINGTON, May ... military captured two more top Iraqi Baath party officials, U.S. Central Command ... and Sad Abd al-Majid al-Faysal , Baath Party regional chairman for Salah al-Din ...

Article: Syria's Baath Party Tries to Reform Itself
AP Online;  June 10, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... man depicting Syria's ruling Baath party looking into the mirror and seeing ... of Saddam Hussein, whose rival Baath party dissolved a month after his 2003 ... After a 4-day congress, the Baath party made recommendations for reform ...

Article: Syria: Chapter 4B. The Baath Party Apparatus
Countries of the World;      700+ words ...00-00-0000 Chapter 4B. The Baath Party Apparatus The Baath Party has never been a mass party. Although party membership ... at least two years before becoming members. The Baath Party has attempted to limit membership to the ideologically ...

Transcript: Profile: Baath Party opens four-day congress in ...
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday;  June 5, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Sunday (NPR) 06-05-2005 Profile: Baath Party opens four-day congress in Syria tomorrow ... Syria tomorrow the country's ruling Baath Party opens a four-day congress. Many Syrians ... Assad declared months ago that the Baath Party congress would mark a great leap forward ...