Word: baghdad
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...Mediterranean, and sent a brigade of troops into Jordan. Syria's inept little army cannot make good use of Russia's modern arms; the arms were obviously being stockpiled for eventual use by Moscow "volunteers." In this uneasy circumstance, Syria's anti-Communist neighbors in the Baghdad Pact-particularly Turkey and Iraq-met and agreed to fight "subversion" from Syria. The Turks announced "routine" army maneuvers near the Syrian border and flew their Acting Foreign Minister to London to discuss "the Syrian situation" with Britain's Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd. Did they intend to put Syria...
...bristled against Turkey and Iraq. Just in case Syria's anti-Communist neighbors were genuinely worried about a foray from Syria, the U.S. State Department announced that it would view "with the utmost gravity" any threat to "the territorial integrity or political independence" of any member of the Baghdad Pact. This was also meant to remove from Turkey and Iraq any pretext for moving into Syria...
...least two and injuring hundreds. (Radio Cairo, greatly magnifying the casualties, boasted of open civil war in Iraq.) Nuri es-Said jailed five opposition chieftains, including a former justice minister and a former president of the Chamber of Deputies, for appealing to King Feisal II to withdraw from the Baghdad Pact. The 21-year-old King opened Parliament, in a speech from the throne that Nuri had written for him, by declaring martial law in all Iraq, and incidentally, in usual Arab fashion, called for the "elimination of Israel." When no fewer than 40 Deputies clamored to speak, to debate...
While troublemakers stirred in Baghdad streets, Premier Nuri es-Said met for three days with the leaders of the three other Moslem members of the Baghdad Pact-Iran, Turkey and Pakistan. (The fifth pact member-Britain-was not welcome.) The four pledged strong measures to fight "the rising tide of subversion in the Middle East," and were obviously most alarmed at the threat in Syria...
...their talks emerged the possibility that the moribund Baghdad Pact might be transmuted into something else -a purely Moslem pact against Soviet penetration. For some time Saudi Arabia's King Saud, despite his feud with the ruling Hashemite family in Iraq, has been moving gradually toward a rapprochement with Iraq, based on the common interest of the two largest oil-producing lands of the Arab world. (Saud fears that Syrians may blow up the U.S.-owned Tapline from his oil fields as they blew up the Iraqi pipeline.) From their new awareness could emerge an inner order...