Word: basra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot and counterplot. Its prisons are jammed with an estimated 5,000 political prisoners and ex-officials, and its lampposts are periodically festooned with bodies. Kassem's Iraq is a place where once-eminent citizens disappear without a trace, a land where fortnight ago the dock workers of Basra, outraged by a friendly reference to Egypt's President Nasser, killed and mutilated a customs clerk and-the modern-day hallmark of Iraqi politics-dragged his body through the streets...
...their behalf, a drumhead People's Court, whose broadcast proceedings are challenging Cairo's Voice of the Arabs as the Mideast's most popular radio program, fills the Iraqi people with Communist-made opinions. Such is the nightmarish atmosphere that in at least one Iraqi city (Basra) the populace is firmly convinced that Communist-led unions have prepared a list of local employers, merchants and professional men to be liquidated as soon as the opportunity offers...
...with none of the usual flamboyant confidence. From his little office in ex-King Farouk's boathouse on the Nile, Gamal Abdel Nasser appealed to 22½ million Egyptians. His words carried also to an enormous Arab audience from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf, from Casablanca to Basra...
...take the child out of the country. But, "as soon as I had Paul safe in my arms," she confessed, "I went to a suburban station where the family couldn't follow me, and I got the last second-class ticket on the first train leaving for Basra." Added Mrs. Subbagh, "I'm never going to leave the United States again as long as I live...
...Harbor installations for Chile, Bangkok, and Basra, Iraq...