P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat points as Syria's President Hafez Assad, center, speaks to an unidentified man during the 6th Non Aligned Summit Meeting In Havana, Cuba in this Sept. 7, 1979 photo. Assad, the autocratic Syrian president who never realized his dream of a united Arab front and a humiliated Israel, died Saturday, June 10, 2000. He was 69. (AP Photo)