Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the league "enshrines the fondest hopes of the Arab people," yet by the time it was three years old, it went down to dismal defeat and division in the Arab-Israeli war. Since then, the Arab League has been torn by feuds between Egypt and the Hashimites (Jordan, Iraq), precariously held together only by a common desire to be revenged on the Israelis. Egypt's Azzam, a suave intriguer, became a symbol of the league's division and impotence...
...except slaves, women without companions and those who cannot afford the journey, to make the hajj, the holy pilgrimage to Mecca, at least once in their lifetime. Last fortnight, as the season of the hajj drew near once again, more hajjis (pilgrims) than ever before-hajjis from Turkey, Iran, Iraq and most of the desert cities and oases of North Africa-followed the Koran's injunction and swarmed into the Lebanese city of Beirut,* the usual way-station on the road to Mecca. Each clutched in the voluminous folds of his ihram (the pilgrim's sheetlike uniform...
...rehashed the "red line" agreement (initiated by the U.S. State Department) which forced the British, French and Dutch to let the U.S. into the rich Iraq oilfields...
Piper Paid. In London. British Foreign Office Clerk Gordon D. Freestone admitted stealing about ?718 ($2,010) from the consulate in Basra. Iraq, to spend on two dancing girls, but pleaded that his character had been excellent "except for those six mad weeks...
Acutely aware of anti-Americanism in Iraq, the State Department decided last spring that it had better give 17-year-old King Feisal II a sales pitch; it invited him to visit...