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...execution of more than 120 potential opponents, some of whom were strung up in Baghdad's Tahrir Square in grisly public hangings. Other enemies of the regime languish in a Baghdad prison that Iraqis ironically refer to as the "Palace of the End." President Ahmed Hassan Bakr, 57, the cautious army general who was installed to arbitrate between feuding Baath factions, has become a figurehead as Vice President Takriti concentrated power in his own hands. Says a Western diplomat in Baghdad: "As things stand now, Bakr has no role to play; Saddam Hussein...
...weeks ago, in response to that attention, Iraq's zealously left-wing government nationalized some of the Western-owned oilfields. In the capital city of Baghdad, crowds cheered the militancy of President Ahmed Hassan Bakr; in Moscow, Izvestia hailed him as the Arab of the hour. For all their intoxicating dose of nationalism, the Iraqis now faced the practical problem of pumping and selling their oil, which amounts to 10% of the Middle East's total. Perhaps their great friends, the Soviets, could help...
Iraq was in trouble. About two-thirds of Baghdad's budget comes from oil. By seizing the assets of the Iraq Petroleum Co. (IPC), worth an estimated $500 million, Bakr & Co. endangered the bulk of their future revenues. Now the government must produce and market oil in the face of legal threats from one of the world's most powerful consortiums, IPC, which is owned by Standard Oil (New Jersey), Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, British Petroleum, Compagnie Franchise des Petroles and minority investors. The four senior partners are influential enough to block sales of Iraqi crude to other major...
When Mohammed died, his first caliph, Abu Bakr, told the Prophet's mourning followers: "If you worship Mohammed, Mohammed has died. But if you worship Allah, he is alive and never will die." Throughout the Middle East, a variation of that aphorism was broadcast over Arab radios last week: "If you worship Gamal, Gamal is dead. But if you worship the ideas of Gamal Abdel Nasser, they are alive and will never die." Nasser had many ideas, not all of them worth preserving. The future of the Middle East may thus depend on which the Arab world jettisons and which...
...initiative was hardly promising. Even before Washington's proposals circulated, Palestinian guerrillas in Jordan had rejected any idea of peace with Israel. Later, Syria and Iraq, neither of which has relations with the U.S., also rejected the American proposals. Algerian President Houari Boumedienne and Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan Bakr, who was paying a call in Algiers, jointly decried the idea of "providing legitimacy to Israeli aggression...