Word: assaid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Iraq's 1958 revolution, and the body of Premier Nuri asSaid was dismembered. Five years later, another set of revolutionaries displayed the bullet-riddled body of President Abdul Karim Kassem on television. But last week's repulsive spectacle of mass public hangings provoked an international outcry. Pope Paul spoke out against the "abomination" and perceived a suspicion that motives of racism were involved." He had previously appealed to Iraq) for mercy for the condemned men, as had the U.S., Britain, France and Italy. They now condemned the executions as, in the words of Secretary of State William...
Unshared Prize. To Kassem the coup must have seemed only too familiar. In the same way back in 1958, Kassem seized power by ruthlessly slaughtering King Feisal II and his ironfisted, pro-Western Premier, Nuri asSaid, who was caught trying to escape the city dressed in women's clothes. In those days Kassem was a brigadier, with the reputation of being the King's most loyal soldier. Actually, he was leader of a group of army conspirators including mercurial Colonel Abdul Salam Aref, a passionate pro-Nasserite. After the young King was slain, Kassem appointed himself Premier, named...
Most notable beneficiary was Fadhil Jamali, one of the free world's strongest friends in the Middle East, who, as Foreign Minister and U.N. delegate, long represented and spoke for the late great and hated Nuri asSaid. Reported tortured and murdered by a street mob during the bloody 1958 revolution, Jamali turned up bruised but alive in a military jail. Tried as a traitor before Baghdad's infamous People's Court, he was sentenced to hang, a sentence commuted last week to ten years' imprisonment...