Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...streets, as fighters roared overhead, youngsters danced and shouted. Newly arrived Jewish immigrants from Iraq and North Africa watched the festivities, shyly amazed at the sight of husky girls in shorts. One old woman, her veil dropped just below her chin as a compromise with the Moslem custom she had always known, crouched silently for 30 hours on a Jerusalem street corner, spellbound by the goings-on in her new homeland. To make the newcomers feel at home, villagers at two new settlements, halfway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, performed Kurdish and Arab dances instead of the Jewish ones...
What happened in Iran may happen tomorrow in Iraq, Syria or Egypt; the U.S. State Department has no plan, no ready means to prevent it. When a reporter suggested to a State Department official last week that the U.S. should take decisive action in the Middle East, including pressure on the British to behave less clumsily, the State Department man summed up the disastrous weakness of U.S. policy in his reply: "You don't do that kind of thing, as it was done in the 19th Century...
...Iraq Petroleum Co. took its lesson from the drive for oil nationalization in neighboring Iran. Twenty-four hours after Iraq's Premier Nuri Al Said warned last week that the oil company might be nationalized, if it did not meet the government's demands for higher royalties, I.P.C. offered Iraq a better deal. The offer: a 50-50 split of the profits -similar to the Aramco-Saudi Arabia arrangement and to the last-minute offer of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. which was ignored by Iran's government...
...Iraq Petroleum Co., which produced 136,000 barrels of oil daily in 1950 (1.3% of total world output), mostly for the European market, is owned jointly by Anglo-Iranian (British), Compagnie Française des Petroles (French), Royal Dutch-Shell (Dutch-British), and the Near East Development Corp. (Socony-Vacuum, Standard Oil Co., N.J.), each with 23.75% of the shares. The remaining 5% is owned by shrewd old Manipulator Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (TIME...
Democratic, progressive Switzerland finds itself in strange company on one point. It is one of only 14 countries in which women are barred from voting. The others: Afghanistan, Colombia, Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia...