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...week's end no tanks had yet attacked the capital, and, in open defiance of Leftist Serraj, Foreign Minister Salah Bitar announced that he had asked ex-Congressman James Richards, Ike's special ambassador to the Middle East, to visit Damascus to explain the advantages of the Eisenhower Doctrine. At this point, Colonel Serraj no longer walked like the undisputed king of the jungle...
...Iraq's oil output for an estimated six months, at a cost in royalties lost to the Iraq treasury of about $80 million. The Syrians snapped right back at Iraq for keeping its ties with Britain. At one table-pounding session, Foreign Minister Salah el Bitar, another Syrian just back from Moscow, charged that Iraq was Britain's and Israel's tool. An Iraqi retorted: "That's better than being a Communist...