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...Irak is a six-wheeled tank that is quite endearing, as war machines go. Milton Bradley's big computer action toy chirps merrily as it sets out on its rounds, plays a little tune when it is finished, and then yips five times like an anxious puppy when it is left turned on and unattended. Twenty-four glorious buttons on its carapace accomplish the programming. An eight-year-old achieves something impressive when he plans a complicated route under the dining room table to attack the cat and then translates his intentions into an orderly series of commands...
...there in 1938, when he already had a reputation as one of the best informed newspapermen in the area. Zinder has been working for TIME ever since, digging out the news for us in the deserts of Arabia and the ports of Syria, in Cyprus, Trans-Jordania, Palestine, Turkey, Irak, Iran, Egypt, and now Libya...
Donovan's Axis. To Belgrade, back to Athens, then to Turkey, to Cairo again, to Irak and Palestine and Bagdad, then once more to London, the Colonel's travels carried him. All that he had seen & heard strengthened his belief in his private theory of the Mediterranean's importance in the war. The Donovan theory: think of the Mediterranean as running north & south, not east & west. Then it becomes a vast No Man's Land between two fronts: the European Front, which is Germany's (with a British salient in Greece), and the African Front...
...traveler, raincoated against England's chilly mist, has his luggage marked "Australia," he will slip between the Alps in the afternoon, dine in Rome, sleep that night in dusty Athens. Next day he will cross the eastern Mediterranean, sweep over Mesopotamia, go to bed in Basra, Irak. Third and fourth nights are spent...
...Persia was setting over Turkey in a final blaze of glory when two men in officer's uniforms emerged from the officers' mess at Mosul airport. Taking seats on a bench overlooking the field they watched the light dim in the west. One of the two was Irak's dictator, General Bakri Sidki Pasha, waiting for a plane to fly to Turkey to witness Turkish army maneuvers. The other was his righthandman, Major Mohamed Ali Jawdat, commander of Irak's air force. In the gathering darkness their cigarets glowed peacefully. A soldier sidled near and suddenly...