Word: hassanal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...that the Iraqi army has been preoccupied for nearly nine years with rebellious Kurd tribesmen. The Kurds, who occupy most of the northern quarter of Iraq with an army of 10,000 men, have been demanding autonomy. Last week, convinced that the endless war was futile, Lieut. General Ahmed Hassan Bakr, Iraq's President, granted the country's 1,500,000 Kurds most of what they wanted...
Last week the Iraqis outdid themselves. Sixteen people were executed by firing squad or gallows for plotting against the Baathist junta of President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, which seized power in 1968. "All conspirators will be crushed to pulp," cried Al-Bakr. Baghdad radio punctuated its attacks on "reactionaries and deviationists" with a new musical number titled No Mercy Any More. In subsequent days, 21 more alleged plotters were executed, in addition to seven Iraqis accused of helping the CIA plot a coup last year. So far, 98 people have been done away with since the beginning...