Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next on Dulles' schedule: Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Greece, Libya. Conspicuously absent: Mossadegh's Iran, which Dulles will fly over but not visit. Reported reason: the U.S. Secret Service rejected strife-torn Iran as unsafe for the visitors...
...east, across bare desert and mountain, in fabled Baghdad, another boy just turned 18, faced an elegant, white-tied assemblage of bearded senators, princes, sheiks and emissaries of 33 foreign lands. At the stroke of 8 on the same morning, he swore to "safeguard the constitution and independence" of Iraq. As Feisal became Iraq's third King, cannons also hammered a101-gun salute, and the people of the ancient, reconstituted kingdom (formerly Mesopotamia) cried their delight...
Waiting for Trouble. By comparison, Feisal's Iraq (175,000 sq. mi.) is a land of promise. It has resources (an oil reserve of five billion barrels), money ($112 million in oil royalties annually), inherently fertile soil and plenty of water for irrigation. Nevertheless, 90% of its 5,000,000 inhabitants are illiterate, and most of the farms are in the hands of usurious absentee landlords. Communist agitators and nationalist fanatics are riding high...
...health problems. An average class of 115 students has 40 foreigners. Many come for a year with the express purpose of picking up additional training to enable them to take charge of public health projects in their home counties. Dr. John Gordon reported visiting with top health men in Iraq, Iran, and Lebanon all graduates of the Harvard school. The Iranian Minister of Health and Child Welfare is an alumnus. With some pride the school quietly reminds itself that it has sent graduates to head five of the ten American schools of Public Health...
Pfeiffer directed the 1928-29 excavations at Nuzi, Iraq, conducted by the Harvard-Baghdad School. A noted Biblical scholar, he was pastor of the Methodist Church in Sanborn, N.Y., from 1916 to 1919 and editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature from 1943 to 1947. In 1950 he served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis...