Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week after the overthrow of Iraq's Dictator Abdul Karim Kassem. the crack of rifle fire still echoed in Baghdad's Liberation Square. Tanks and armored cars kept stern vigil at every important intersection. Scurrying everywhere were the little squads of men wearing green armbands-ferrets who sought to find and to crush the last remaining opposition to Rebel President Abdul Salam Aref and his mysterious revolutionary backers...
...were these new rulers? In the modern mode, Aref, 41, gritted his teeth and presented himself at the Baghdad Hotel for the inevitable press conference with the swarm of foreign correspondents, an ordeal he seemed to regard as in some ways worse than the historic night of the coup itself. More than a hundred shouting reporters and photographers pushed aside his tommy-gun-waving guard and crowded around Iraq's boss to hear Aref speak freely about the aims and purposes of the new government. He said something about an end to one-man rule, friendship with all Arab...
...Manhattan court. She was, she said, the widow of assassinated King Feisal II, 23 at the time of his death. They had fallen in love at a garden party in Greenwich, Conn, given by her mother, a lady engineer and construction company executive. In 1957 Genevieve went to Baghdad, where she and Feisal were secretly married. Who believed it? A Manhattan surrogate court judge, that's who. The judge ruled that she is Feisal's lawful widow, making her eligible for $124,000 in the late King's Manhattan bank account, untold amounts more abroad if foreign...
...fight was only beginning. Rebel units surrounded Baghdad's huge, yellow brick Defense Ministry, the home and headquarters of Premier Kassem, which was defended by 600 trusted soldiers. The rebels brought up tanks and heavy artillery, and Iraqi fighter planes strafed and bombed the Kassem fortress...
Died. Abdul Karim Kassem, 48. Iraqi Premier who seized power in a coup d'état; reportedly in front of a firing squad, after another coup d'état; in Baghdad (see THE WORLD...