Word: basra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Piper Paid. In London. British Foreign Office Clerk Gordon D. Freestone admitted stealing about ?718 ($2,010) from the consulate in Basra. Iraq, to spend on two dancing girls, but pleaded that his character had been excellent "except for those six mad weeks...
Last week Pepsi was set to take another big gulp out of Coke's Mideastern market. With plants under construction in Basra and Khartoum, Pepsi has issued franchises for other plants, costing about $400,000 each, in Bahrein and Amman...
...Basra...
...corridors of Anglo-Iranian's low, yellow brick headquarters in Khorramshahr, twelve miles from Abadan. An associate, Nassir Gholi Ardalan, hurried behind. Beaming, Daftary said: "We're moving into our new offices, upstairs." They marched into the rooms of General Manager Eric Drake, who had gone to Basra, Iraq, 40 miles away, because he feared arrest on trumped-up "sabotage" charges. In Drake's office, they confronted Assistant General Manager Alec Mason and five other top British executives. "Ah, gentlemen," said Mason, "you have come to talk with us?" "No," said Daftary, "we've just come...