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* American policy is cracking the ice cap of Baathist oppression that has settled over Syria these 40 years. Washington's move to impose sanctions for President Assad's support of terror is encouraging Syrians to demand rights. After a nine-year spell in a Syrian prison, Nizar Nayouf lives in exile in Paris. There he edits The Voice of Democracy, a newspaper that is everything its title implies. Assad badly wants to lay hands on Nayouf again, and it looks as if the French may humbly oblige. They seem unwilling to offer a democratic Syrian journalist the same protection they once took pride in extending to political refugees, including the authoritarian Ayatollah Khomeini. In central Damascus, a group of 20 or 30 democrats met to protest the anniversary of the Baath party's seizure of power. They claimed to have 7,000 signatures to a petition demanding the lifting of rule by emergency law. ...