DAMASCUS, Syria -- Hafez Assad, the autocratic Syrian president who never realized his dream of a united Arab front and a humiliated Israel, died Saturday...

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- President Clinton said today he will meet in Switzerland next week with Syrian President Hafez Assad. An Israeli spokesman said he hoped that would get stalled Syria-Israel peace talks back on track, The meeting will...

DAMASCUS, Syria -- Pallbearers in scarlet berets and combat fatigues bore the body of Syrian President Hafez Assad through streets thronged with weeping, chanting mourners on Tuesday, a day of funeral ceremonies fraught with national grief...

...with grief, took to the streets on the eve of President Hafez Assad's state funeral, while Syria's powerful military...street, with women weeping and people waving portraits of Hafez Assad. Others carried black banners emblazoned, ''Bashar...

...hysterical grief displayed by the Syrian people at President Hafez Assad's death was just show for police informers and state-run...arrest of Chile's former dictator, Augusto Pinochet. Hafez Assad killed more people in one week than Pinochet did in 17...

...indication when she thought the breakdown could be repaired. She said President Clinton had telephoned Syrian President Hafez Assad today, while she talked to Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa on Monday. ''We just have to keep at it,'' Albright...

...be strengthened. The Lebanese government should assume control over the areas vacated by Israel. Syrian President Hafez Assad, who alone can ensure that there is no escalation, should be held responsible for what comes next. Israel faced no...

...issue, but there is no great moral imperative for Israel to reach an agreement with Syria's dictator, President Hafez Assad. And in contrast to the behavior of then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat during the Camp David process, Mr. Assad...

...painted his likeness on a water tower. His mood, however, was dampened by the news of the death of Syrian President Hafez Assad. As he sat on the dais waiting to deliver his speech, Clinton was handed a note confirming Assad's death. He did...

...benefits that peace would bring. Israel would gain acceptance and recognition by its neighbors. For Syria's President Hafez Assad to keep the status quo is to assure that his country will remain a politically isolated economic backwater. But change...