Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long ago, Abdul Karim Kassem, lean and psychotic strongman of Iraq, boasted that he had survived 38 attempts to kill him over the past 4½ years. Last week in Baghdad, death kept the 39th appointment...
...Moslem week, and in the midst of Ramadan, the month when good Moslems fast every day from sunup to sundown and tempers are everywhere short. Army trucks and tanks were already rumbling through the streets when at 9:30 a.m., a strident new voice on Radio Baghdad began exulting, "This is the voice of the Iraqi revolution!" Accusing "Kassem the dictator" of having "murdered citizens, weakened the army, imprisoned and executed scores of officers," the broadcaster claimed that the rebels "have destroyed the tyrant...
...honey, but that wasn't what he wanted to be at all. He studied Gary's walk and he studied Gary's talk, but he might as well have tried to take the BMT to England. "Yonduh," he solemnly stated in one tale of old Baghdad, "lies duh castle uh duh Caliph, my fahduh...
...head the new government, Hussein, fortnight ago, renamed as Premier able Wasfi Tal, 42, who was summoned home last February from his post as Jordan's Ambassador to Baghdad and ordered to breathe new life into a wheezing administration. A onetime British army captain who takes Washington's New Frontier as his model, Tal installed a young, twelve-man Cabinet that included eleven university graduates, immediately fired 150 corrupt or inefficient senior officials in a housecleaning that swept out his own uncle...
Outdated Qat. Against this regime, Sallal and his friends were plotting for 20 years, ever since he qualified for training at a military academy in Iraq. "In Baghdad," he says, "I was dazzled by all the wonderful things that did not exist in Yemen. If I viewed Baghdad as progress, you can understand what Yemen is like." Involvement in plots often landed Sallal in jail. He spent ten years as a prisoner, seven of them in solitary confinement in a dungeon at Hajjah, where he was chained to an iron ball. His stomach still suffers from the diet, and Sallal...