Word: baghdad
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Deep Strike. In Baghdad last week, the new Iraqi regime that deposed and killed Kassem in February finally faced up to the issue of peace or continued war with the Kurdish leader, Mustafa Barzani. "The very day of the revolt against Kassem," said an angry Kurdish rebel, "the new Iraqi Revolutionary Command called for Kurdish support. With the revolution, the Iraqi armed forces were totally disorganized, and we could easily have struck deep into Iraq. Instead we accepted their promises and held our fire...
Shoot on Sight. At week's end, as their delegates still wrangled in Baghdad, both the Kurdish rebels and the Iraqi army prepared for the worst. The government proclaimed a dusk-to-dawn curfew around northern Iraq's oilfields, pump stations, airfields, and military depots, warned that violators would be "shot on sight." Iraqi troops blocked all roads leading into the Zagros Mountains. Nearly three-quarters of the army was busy building concrete pillboxes and fortifications covering the mountain passes...
...eleven years as chief chitchatterer for the Examiner, gave the paper notice one Monday and flounced off to a champagne reception at the Chronicle only three days later. Boob Audience. Standout among the Chronicle's columnists is Veteran Herb Caen, 47, whose pieces in praise of his beloved "Baghdad by the Bay" are credited by Newhall with drawing 35,000 extra readers. Caen defected in 1950, when the Examiner offered to double his $15,000 salary, but he returned to the Chronicle eight years later for $38,000. In the last 25 years more than a score of rivals...
...Even Deal." As the pressures mounted, Radio Baghdad called Hussein the "hireling king" and the "grandson of Uncle Sam," warned that flight was the only escape from "the noose the people are preparing for you." Instead of decamping, King Hussein last week closed his border against Syrian arms and agents, toured the old city of Jerusalem, Al Birah and Ramallah, where he chatted with army officers and inspected troops in their sandbag dugouts facing the Israeli positions along the frontier. In his determination to stay in power, Hussein jeered at Israel, partly to pacify the Palestinian Arabs, who make...
...carefully investing in a wide range of new industries and public works from Casablanca to Baghdad, Shoman's new Arab Bank acted as a catalyst for Arab economic development in the days when no one was willing to bet on it. Says Shoman: "There would not be any industry here if we had not helped finance it." Arab Bank loans created jobs for more than 100,000 workers, and in Jordan the bank's loans for new cement, textile, and food-processing plants have given the country a growth rate in the Middle East second only...