Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Homework. In Baghdad, Author Salih Salman complained to police that his house had been ransacked while he attended a debate about his latest work...
...year ago the Communists were the masters of Baghdad's streets, lords of the Iraqi press and radio, the wire-pulling bosses controlling the country's peasant, student and labor unions. Suspicion was that they could take over the country whenever they wished...
...Communists are still a major force in the ill-disciplined life of post-revolutionary Iraq. But today in Baghdad people no longer talk of an impending Communist takeover. Overaggressive Red tactics have wearied public opinion. Though Premier Karim Kassem still accepts Communist support to balance off pro-Nasser Arab nationalist elements, he refuses to license the regular party as a lawful political entity. In Basra, once a Communist citadel, authorities have jailed about 100 Communist labor leaders on charges of misappropriating union funds. Last week the Court of Cassation forbade the Communist-run Democratic Youth League permission to open...
...dawn one morning last week, while most of Baghdad was still asleep, 55-year-old Abdul Rahman, a silversmith, padded down to the Tigris and squatted on the eastern bank. Covering his head with his kaffiyeh, he recited the prayer: "In the name of the Great Life, healing and purity are thine, my Father, their Father, Great Yardna of living water." Then he began his ablutions. First he washed his hands and face and cleaned out his ears, snuffed water from his cupped palm into his nostrils three times, washed his loins, bathed his knees and legs three times, dabbled...
...political organization in the land, the Communists no longer enjoy the unquestioning popularity that immediately followed the abortive military revolt in Mosul last March. They pressed so hard for admission to Kassem's Cabinet that the Premier's right-wing supporters rose, and fighting broke out in Baghdad. In July the first anniversary of the revolution was marred by a savage Communist-inspired massacre of rightists in Kirkuk. Shocked, Kassem ordered a roundup of Communist leaders-while characteristically taking two party-liners into his Cabinet...