Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Imam of Yemen and the Sheik of Kuwait. He was on close enough terms with Nasser to be chosen for the dictator's first interview, six hours long, after the Suez war. That friendship has since chilled. He was a good friend of the late Nuri Pasha of Iraq, who always greeted him with the shout: "Hey Look!" Saudi Arabia's King Saud once gave him a wristwatch-though, since TIME'S cover was far from unreserved praise, "I only got the airline-hostess model." King Hussein of Jordan once took Mecklin flying in his plane, with...
...This is not an exercise in international goodwill," stated Kissinger. "Delegates are instructed to pull no punches." Representatives from sensitive trouble-spots all over the globe--authors, journalists, teachers, economists, and government officials--from Poland and Yugoslavia to Egypt and Iraq, trade facts and opinions with comparative freedom and considerable candor...
...Iraq is a rich prize. Once the land of the Garden of Eden and the lush valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates, it lapsed into centuries of neglect and misrule until oil was discovered. Now the world's sixth-largest oil producer, it has allotted 70% of its revenues in a far-sighted Development Board program to double the country's standard of living in ten years. In seven years, Iraq's per-capita income has advanced from $84 to $140. But this slow progress against immense poverty, illness and illiteracy had to contend constantly with...
...bear over other countries by interfering in their internal affairs and with various forms of pressure." To any innocent outsider, such a criticism might seem to apply to Russia's campaign against Yugoslavia and Hungary, or to Nasser's pressure on Lebanon, or perhaps even to Iraq, but the two dictators gave two other examples instead: alleged Western pressure in Lebanon and Indonesia...
Nasser was still in Yugoslavia, on holiday with wife and children, when the coup in Iraq took place. Did he expect it at that moment? Or, having supplied the fuel, had he left it to others to decide when the match was lit? After all, to establish innocence by geographical separation, he could also prove that he was away in Soviet Russia when the Lebanese revolt began...