Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong trade ties and commercial ambitions in the Arab Middle East, did not mind letting it be known that they were not involved. Adenauer, miffed at not being told in advance, was mollified when John Foster Dulles made a special trip to see him en route to a Baghdad Pact meeting...
...very day the mutinous Iraqi army officers took over Baghdad and proclaimed their comradeship with Nasser, an Egyptian officer arrived in Khartoum and announced himself new counselor to the Egyptian embassy. To the Sudanese government the name of Ali Khashaba was familiar. Iraq and Lebanon had already expelled him for subversion. Last spring Saudi Arabia, kicking him out, accused him of masterminding a plot to murder King Saud. Within three days of his arrival in Khartoum, the Sudanese government charged Ali Khashaba with stirring up subversion, gave him exactly 24 hours to get out of the country...
...Baghdad is 600 miles from the Soviet city of Baku-about as far as Washington, D.C. is from Chicago. For centuries Russian imperialism groped without success for the power lodgment in the Middle East that the Soviet Union hopefully sees itself about to win. The Western powers had agreed to a summit meeting with Russia about the Middle East; and the radios of Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad all saluted this as a great Soviet breakthrough. "The Arabs are not Marxists," said Nikita Khrushchev last week. "But we hail them. National liberation is the first step...
When the army rebels seized power in Iraq fortnight ago, no American foreign correspondent was in the country. For the next week, correspondents swarmed into the Middle East and made sorties on Iraq's sealed borders. The man who reached Baghdad first was no old Middle East hand, but the A.P.'s blond, 34-year-old Stan Carter, assigned to the Beirut bureau only last month. Carter flew into neighboring Syria and began to importune Iraqi officials, finally wangled his way aboard an Iraqi military plane and landed in Baghdad some 60 hours before any competitor showed...
Last week, as Carter's files describing the outward calm of revolution's aftermath started to flow out of Baghdad, his rivals were still scrambling to get into Iraq as best they could. Correspondent Daniel F. Gilmore and Photographer Dieter Hespe of United Press International, and NBC's Tom Streithorst, hired a Beirut taxi to drive them the 620 miles between Beirut and Baghdad. When their driver quit at the Syrian border, they hitched a ride on a Syrian potato truck, got another taxi in Damascus. They bought off suspicious Lebanese rebels with cigarettes and bottles...