Syria faces its most serious economic crisis since the advent of the correctionist movement -- jargon for the coming to power of President Hafez Assad in the early 1970s. Private-sector businessmen with long memories say the present financial crisis is the worst since the Ba'athist socialist revolution, which led to a series of coups and to economic chaos in the mid-1960s.
Schreeve, Gauin,
January 05, 1986
