Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After looking at your Aug. 4 pictures of the Baghdad victims, I have decided to resign from the human race...
...second time I have found it necessary to tear a page out of TIME before taking it home. I wonder why any editor who is a human being could think of printing the "Victims of Baghdad" pictures...
...radio voices throughout the Arab world last week. The clandestine Jordan People's Radio (which actually broadcasts from Syria) railed at King Hussein and his men: "The Jordanian people will reply to you with ropes; they will hang you on poles and watch your rotten bodies swing!" Baghdad Radio tried to spread infection to Iran with a Persian-language broadcast: "Dear compatriots, shake off the dust of humiliation and misery. Today all freedom-loving peoples have revolted against imperialism." Radio Cairo wooed the Sudan; the "Voice of Free Lebanon" (which uses the same Syrian transmitter and wave length...
Iraq. The new revolutionary regime seems solidly in the saddle but not yet shaken down. Last week the mask of sweet reasonableness toward the West appeared to slip a bit. Baghdad censors permitted the newspaper Al-Yakdha to boast: "We have no reason not to consider ourselves part of the United Arab Republic." The Baghdad radio announced that 111 prisoners (39 of them army officers) would shortly be tried by military courts for past crimes against the state. At the U.N., the new Iraqi delegate, Hashim Jawad, took his line from Egypt's shrewd Delegate Omar Loutfi by calling...
...back-slapping made it clear that Nasser was suggesting to the other Mideast states that they join in one big family dominated, naturally, by Nasser and Egypt. If Iraqis in the new Cabinet longed to keep oil royalties inside their own borders, they had to be mindful of the Baghdad street mobs that cheer Nasser's photograph, and absorb the lies and fury of Radio Cairo...