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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ARABS: Joining the Crowd | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANS ABROAD: Baghdad Honeymoon | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...Harbor installations for Chile, Bangkok, and Basra, Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Report From Essen | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 1, 1952 | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: The Pepsi Culture | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

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