Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Bankers want no part of the Western-sponsored Baghdad pact. Only a few are Communists, but all are discontented. In caves and U.N. refugee camps squat 450,000 dispossessed Palestine refugees, idle and restless, spoiling for trouble. With the encouragement of Egyptian agitators and Saudi Arabian bribes, they have challenged the whole basis of Britain's position in its last stronghold on the strategic Middle East land bridge between Europe, Asia and Africa...
Voting with Stones. Jordan's smiling young Harrow-educated Hashemite King, the 20-year-old Hussein, needed help. Faced with overwhelming opposition to the King's attempt to join the anti-Communist Baghdad pact, the palace politicians tried to call off the spring balloting which the King had hastily promised in the midst of last month's rioting...
...Arabian-Nights locale, the picture has a highly improbable plot about a poet who possesses a shapely daughter but no money and, to judge by his verses, no talent. His rise to prosperity involves, of course, an evil wizard and a prince who runs around the streets of Baghdad incognito. Howard Keel, as the poet, is just entertaining enough to suggest that with even half-decent material he might give a fine performance. Ann Blyth does not distinguish her fairly easy part as the poet's daughter, but she does not ruin it either. The same, unfortunately...
Pillar of Wisdom. For 25 years Nuri es-Said, who after breaking with the Turks fought heroically beside Lawrence of Arabia in his World War I desert campaigns, has dominated Iraqi politics. He shares control of the country with 20 or so feudal sheiks and big Baghdad landholders. At the last election in 1954, Nuri es-Said and his sheiks obviously had things well under control: on election day, 122 of the 135 parliamentary seats were uncontested. Democracy this may not be, but by Middle East standards, it is good government. Now in his 15th premiership and growing frail...
...firmly convinced that Iraq's foreign policy, its new commitment to the West, has now been shaped for a long time to come. "Look," he says, "the Baghdad pact goes on whether I die or retire or get voted out." He added characteristically: "Before we signed it, I got the approval of every ex-Prime Minister [Iraq has half a dozen]. Any Prime Minister we would get to replace me would be already committed to the pact...