Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Though all defense plans assumed logistic connections across Iraq, and the Iraqi rebels apparently captured a cache of the pact's plans in Baghdad, including lists of agents in the Arab world. Radio Cairo, whose reputation for veracity assays amazing low, has already begun to broadcast what it declares is information from the seized records...
...Presidential Envoy Robert D. Murphy flew into Amman airport from Lebanon, called on Hussein at his heavily defended palace. Hussein asked for sufficient aid to withstand the revolutionary fires being fanned from Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, pleaded that the U.S. not recognize the new Iraqi regime "at least, for the time being." It was Murphy's unpleasant duty to inform Hussein of two hard facts: 1) no U.S. troops will be sent to Jordan; 2) U.S. recognition of Iraq was already decided upon. Then Murphy bid his host goodbye, drove off to Jerusalem and passed through the Mandelbaum Gate...
...high-ceilinged map room of the Defense Ministry in -Baghdad, Premier Abdul Kareem el-Kassim continued to issue, in his own cautious way, the soothing statements he has been making since the day of his lightning coup. "We are pragmatic people trying to do the best for our country," said he. "We cannot be qualified as Socialists or anything else. Our tendencies should be judged by our actions...
...assassinated King Feisal II, Crown Prince Abdul Illah and Premier Nuri asSaid, Her Majesty's British Government officially recognized the new regime that had overthrown and murdered these friends of the West. Next day the U.S. did the same, and promptly sent Troubleshooter Robert Murphy off to Baghdad for talks...
...just wants to be friends with everybody. It was Aref who, on the day of the coup, incited the mobs to attack Nuri and the Crown Prince. It was Aref who flew to Damascus to meet Egypt's Nasser-whose picture is displayed far more often in Baghdad these days than is that of El-Kassim...