Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three months after the Kassim government came to power, the British were selling him arms; their technicians were helping him reorganize his economy; their statesmen and industrialists were offering aid in a variety of areas. And all this, while Iraq was withdrawing from the Baghdad Pact, while the Communists waved Kassim's portrait in the May Day Parade, and while the press in both Iraq and Britain enjoyed and orgy of mutual slander which is only now beginning to abate. The British took these violent insults, even from Kassim himself, diplomatically. They didn't alter their foreign policy...
...Iraq, where politics are seldom clear-cut, recent visitors have been impressed with a change of mood. Thirty months ago, Westerners were being taunted in the streets of Baghdad; today they are more welcome than in most other Middle East capitals...
...Style. Iraqis date the change from last November, when the Communists organized a strike of tobacco workers in Baghdad. Apparently, this was too much for Iraq's "sole leader," Major General Abdel Kerim Kassem. Army troops turned on the demonstrators, brusquely broke up the strike. Since then, 28 Communists have been condemned to death and ten others sentenced to terms of life imprisonment for atrocities perpetrated in the 1959 rioting. Party workers have been purged from government offices, the army and the trade unions. The Russian ambassador himself recently got a two-hour raking over from Kassem, who accused...
...rule now often seems to transcend the merely earthly. He roams his curfewed capital in the early hours of the morning visiting bakeries "to taste the people's bread." He engages in talks with the goatskin-clad poor who live in reed huts on the mud flats of Baghdad's Tigris river. He loses no opportunity to expound on the mystic ideals of "Arab brotherhood," and has even re-established politely formal relations with the U.A.R., whose rulers, not long ago, stood accused in Iraqi public opinion of having engineered the attempt to kill...
...celebrate the occasion, Kassem had planned a warm reception when Tunisia's delegate arrived for the Arab League meeting held in Baghdad. He was disconcerted when 10,000 Iraqis flocked to the airport to greet not the Tunisian but the U.A.R.'s Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, shouting "Union under Nasser soon...