Word: baghdad
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METO was born last week in Baghdad...
...months since the U.S. Secretary of State made this statement, allied diplomats have worked to turn a vague desire into a concrete fact. Their first reward came in February, when Turkey and Iraq signed a mutual-defense pact in Baghdad. Britain, representing Cyprus, joined in April, Pakistan in July. Last week Iran signed up, and the "Northern Tier" became one of the important realities of international politics...
...resplendent highlight of Long Island's summer social season, widening Automogul Henry Ford II and his petite wife Anne, togged for a make-believe Arabian night, met up with tall-on-the-camel Cinemactor Gary (Beau Geste) Cooper at a Baghdad ball in Southampton. For his resemblance to a sheik on his way to a shower bath, Arabian Knight Cooper copped first prize in the men's division for his getup's elegant authenticity...
...West moved swiftly last week to take a new partner into its "northern tier" of Middle East defenses. Stopping over in Baghdad on his way back from Bangkok, Britain's Anthony Eden suggested to Iraq's Premier Nuri es-Said that Britain is ready to join the Turkish-Iraqi alliance and to replace the expiring Anglo-Iraqi pact with a new association . . . in line with those which already exist with Turkey and other partners in NATO. " Britian's connection with Iraq is oil, which is Baghdad's chief source of revenue: $100 million a year...
Turkey's two mightiest political figures last week left their own shores to line up friends abroad. President Celal Bayar turned up in Karachi to cement a military alliance with Pakistan. Premier Adnan Menderes descended by air on Baghdad to sign a Turkish-Iraqi treaty of mutual defense against Communism...