Word: aly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jubilant delegations dashed between Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo last week, the Arab world was awash with joy. Crowds swarmed in the streets chanting the slogan, "Unity. Freedom, Socialism!" In Cairo and Damascus, mobs shouted. "Nasser! Nasser! Union tomorrow!" Iraq's Deputy Premier Ali Saleh Saadi cried. "The Arab world will now certainly unite. This is an old aspiration. What is new is that it has now become possible...
India angrily fired off notes to both Rawalpindi and Peking condemning the pact. New Delhi was less disturbed by the barren, mountainous geography involved than by the fact that Pakistan Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto could travel to Peking and negotiate a separate deal on a chunk of Kashmir with the Communist enemy, while the talks with India were still going on, and while Chinese troops still menaced India's Himalayan frontier. It just might be that Pakistan's Bhutto was using the Chinese agreement as a club to scare India's government into making compromises...
...from the cold night air by a siwan, a "hall" roofed and walled by brightly colored canvas. "Union! Union! Union! Nasser! Nasser! Nasser!" roared the mob. What it got was a little less than Nasser had hoped for. The leaders of the Iraqi delegation to the celebration, Deputy Premier Ali Saleh Saadi and Foreign Minister Talib Hussein Shabib, were cordial enough, but they were far from specific. Saadi dutifully paid tribute to Egypt as the "mother republic" of the Arab world, but instead of calling for union, he urged only a "frank rapprochement" between Cairo and Baghdad...
...Brunei Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd. and the Brunei government designed to give Brunei a larger slice of revenue from private oil production (1962 daily output: 85,000 bbl.). Levy merely observed; by the time the delicate negotiations began, he had already given his client. His Highness Sultan Sir Omar Ali Saifuddin. "disinterested advice" about what he considered a fair price for both parties...
Died. Mohammed Ali, 53, Pakistan's Foreign Minister, onetime Prime Minister (1953-55) and former Ambassador to the U.S., a convivial son of a rich Bengal landowner and one of his nation's most progressive politicians, a firm friend of the West who once confided that his "life's ambition'' was to retire to Florida and open a curry restaurant; of a heart attack; in Dacca...