Word: abdul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Enemies of Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, the man who is strategic Iraq's chief bulwark against a Communist takeover, charge that he himself flirted with Communism in his youth. Kassem himself recently told a TIME correspondent: "I don't care about parties . . . They can call us Communists or anything else if they like." Incidentally, the main reason Kassem rides through Baghdad every afternoon is not to receive the applause of the crowds, but to visit his suburban home for a bath: the Defense Ministry, where Kassem sleeps, has no bathroom...
...Mideast, too, one of the torchbearers of neutralism showed further signs of awakening. The U.A.R.'s Gamal Abdel Nasser, ranging himself against the Reds who surround Iraq's Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, admitted that he once thought that Arab Communists were independent of Moscow. "But they were not," said Nasser; they were trying to sow dissension and "put us into spheres of influence...
FORTNIGHT ago TIME Middle Eastern Correspondent William McHale had an exclusive interview with Iraq's Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, and the Premier gave McHale an autographed photograph of himself. Before McHale could get it to press, the interview was being broadcast four times daily over the government radio. Then, in an abrupt switch, McHale got a summons to police headquarters, was given twelve hours to get out of the country. Two other U.S. correspondents, CBS's Winston Burdett and U.P.I.'s Larry Collins, got similar calls. The only explanation given the three men, none of whom...
...Pakistan marched inside to receive a note from Iraq's Foreign Minister Hashim Jawad. When they had left, the U.S.'s gangling Ambassador John Jernegan was ushered in and got the same word verbally. Later, at a press conference to which Western correspondents were not invited, Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, Iraq's strongman, announced publicly what the ambassadors had been told privately: Iraq was withdrawing from the Baghdad Pact...
...Perhaps Kassem was already too committed to the Communists to break free from them. But he has so far not capitulated to the other two Red demands that would clear the way for their takeover. He has not yet executed such "traitors" as his onetime sidekick and coconspirator, Colonel Abdul Salam Mohammed Aref. And he has so far resisted giving arms to "the people"-i.e., the so-called Popular Resistance Force, which would be a Red militia...