Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shocked over the murderous way that Iraq was taken over, but how could you bring yourself to print such pictures [Aug. 4] as those of the butchered victims? I really thought you were above such things...
...found Nasser more interested in the rights of minorities and less bitterly intransigent against Israel than most other Arab leaders whom I met. Most of Washington's Arab friends in Iraq and Saudi Arabia are (or were) extreme social reactionaries: kings, sheiks and corrupt and extortionate landlords. We Americans loved anyone who professed antiCommunism, especially if he had oil property. As for Nasser, he clearly wants to be a Tito, not a Kadar, vis-à-vis Moscow...
...escaped assassination two weeks ago on the road from Béit Meri and was irate at the rebels' continued holdout, tendered his resignation, but President Chamoun refused it. Puffing worriedly on a hubble-bubble water pipe, Solh told newsmen that he could have been butchered as was Iraq's Nuri asSaid "if the American forces had been 24 hours late." He went on: "The rebels, who had massed fresh forces and ammunition from Syria, were to launch a big attack shortly after the Iraqi coup. Had the U.S. not acted in time, the massacres would have dwarfed...
Inonu, leader of the opposition Republicans, was disturbed by the widespread reports that Premier Adnan Menderes was about to order his army into Iraq in the days immediately following the Baghdad revolt. Following the precept laid down by Ataturk, Inonu believes that it must be a cardinal principle of Turkish policy never to interfere in the affairs of the onetime subject peoples of the Ottoman Empire. He warned that hostility to Iraq was "not in the interests of our country" and roundly condemned the government for publicly approving the U.S. and British landings in the Middle East. "The interventions...
...latest count, Egypt had some 400 teacher-agitators in Kuwait, 1,000 in Saudi Arabia, 400 in Libya and 100 in Syria. Iraq's Premier Nuri asSaid, killed in the July 14 revolt, had thrown Egyptian teachers out of his country, but last week, after the revolution, Cairo announced that a new detachment of 300 would be sent to help out the now friendly Iraq government. For Egypt, which has more teachers than it can use (the University of Cairo turns out huge classes of B.A.s each year, and there are too few schools to provide posts...