Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months after the revolt that swept away King Feisal II and the regime of Nuri asSaid, Baghdad is an armed camp. It simmers with hatred for the foreigner. Its dusty streets are oppressive with the sense of suppressed violence. Cops and soldiers with planted bayonets guard hotel entrances. Armored cars bristle before public buildings and jeep-mounted recoilless 106-mm. guns glower down the broad avenues, presumably on guard against the "corruption" and "imperialist aggressors" the Baghdad radio so ceaselessly attacks. Barefoot young people rove the banks of the Tigris, singing patriotic songs and shouting: "Nasser, Nasser." Every wall...
Glitter Gone. The new regime is still wreaking its vengeance on the old. Last week the government prosecutor demanded the head of U.S.-educated ex-Premier Fadhil Jamali. Jamali's chief crime: taking Iraq into the Baghdad Pact. Cried the prosecutor: "God ordained that we should have one head left out of those destroyed at the hands of the people. God be praised for these blessed hours in which the enemy of the people stands in the prisoner's dock before the People's Court...
...petty merchants in the capital's dark-shadowed bazaars have found that life goes on much as before, with the rich a bit poorer and the poor no richer. Petty politicians grumble that they have not been allowed to form parties. Intellectuals complain that all but three Baghdad newspapers have been closed down (under Nuri asSaid there were nine...
Jordan's King Hussein, said Hammarskjold, agreed to accept an ambassador as the U.N.'s "presence" in Amman, provided others were named for Cairo and Baghdad, too. Nasser had no objection to one in Amman, but to accept one in Cairo would be an admission that Nasser was guilty of something. That he rejected out of hand. In the face of such intransigence, Hussein concluded that a U.N. presence was no substitute for British troops. This week Amman announced that the British, whose aid was cut off at Jordanian request in 1957, had agreed to grant Jordan...
This forthright statement on a subject that had been rumored for months shocked officials, set diplomats and newsmen scurrying to find out precisely what Noon meant. Opposition leaders and newspapers detected a plot. Behind Noon, they cried, "was the same hidden hand which forced us into the Baghdad Pact...