Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tinkle of expensive glassware mingled with the murmur of subdued conversation and the swift, deft movement of red-coated waiters in the grand ballroom of London's Grosvenor House one day last week. Distinguished guests sipped and chatted at the invitation of the Iraq Petroleum Co., to celebrate the opening of a $115 million new 30-inch pipeline to the Mediterranean that promises to more than triple the output of Iraq's oil. The assembled guests watched a movie of the pipeline's construction, and applauded vigorously at the progress it augured. "You can be bloody sure...
What the oilman forgot was that many of the mistakes that plagued the far-off, troubled Middle East had been made long since. Iraq, like Iran, is a land of degenerate wealth and desperate poverty-shot through with resentment at the Westerners whose activity has increased the one without diminishing the other...
...unified peacefully," Toynbee said, "one could imagine, in 2002, a political map not unlike that of the Graeco-Roman world in A.D. 102, in which everything between Britain and India inclusive was gathered up in three empires-the empire in India and central Asia, the Parthian in Iran and Iraq, the Roman world round the Mediterranean. In form these three powers were all mutually independent, in reality the paramountcy of the Roman Empire was admitted by the other...
Dorothy Thompson, syndicated newspaper columnist and author, and Feres Malouf, Boston attorney, will take the negative. Miss Thompson has recently returned from a trip through Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran. She is the president and initiator of the American Friends of the Middle East...
Countries that will be included in this program include: Australia, Austria, Belgium and Luxemburg, Burma, Denmark, Egypt, France, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, Turkey, the Union of South Africa, the United Kingdom, and West Germany...