He tried to modernize Syria 's agricultural and industrial sectors ; one of his main achievements was the completion of the Tabqa Dam on the Euphrates River in 1974 .
Assad called his domestic reforms a corrective movement , and it achieved some results .
Assad tried to modernize Syria 's agricultural and industrial sectors ; one of Assad 's main achievements was the completion of the Tabqa Dam on the Euphrates River in 1974 .
Assad called his domestic reforms a corrective movement , and it achieved some results .