Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very, very happy to be here," said Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, as he stepped off his plane into Karachi's 104° heat. Only seven months ago, demonstrating in Karachi's streets, Pakistanis were cursing the name of Britain, Iraq's Premier Nuri asSaid was declaring Iraq would boycott any meeting of the Baghdad Pact attended by Britain, and just about everyone was saying that the Baghdad Pact was dead. But last week as the five members of the Baghdad Pact (Britain, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, Iran) met for the first time since the British...
...Nasser and his involvement with Russia. For another, the slow recognition that the Eisenhower Doctrine is genuinely intended to help the Middle Eastern nations to preserve their independence and viability. With Saudi Arabia's King Saud shifting his considerable weight to the side of his fellow kings in Iraq and Jordan, the four Moslem pact countries suddenly found that they could safely reassert their common concern against the Communist threat and their membership in a useful instrumentality that did not compromise their independence...
Short, plump and natty in a tan gabardine suit, Nuri asSaid, 13 times Prime Minister of Iraq, stepped down jauntily from his Vickers Viscount. His lips slightly parted, his hooded eyes darting back and forth as if not to miss a detail, he looked almost as if he were tasting the happy occasion...
...resignation, in effect, put the seal of completion on one more term of office, the longest spell (34 months) that Iraq's durable strongman had ever stayed in the Premier's post. Even if he relinquished office, Nuri would still be the dominant figure in Iraq. But he knew that Iraq's boy king, Feisal II, would ask him to try again, and Nuri would have a chance to form a new government, with a widened Cabinet. In office or out, the adroit, 68-year-old Nuri is the senior Arab statesman of the Middle East...
...first formal press conference in three years, Premier Nuri asSaid said flatly that Iraq would retain martial law-imposed last autumn after Britain and France invaded Suez-as long as the Soviet Union continued her attempts to penetrate the Middle East. Martial law will be lifted, he said, "when we see that Communism-or, really, Moscow-is going to stop creating troubles among our neighboring countries. I don't believe Moscow is going to stop creating disturbances, so we must be careful not to allow Shepilov, Khrushchev and others to deal with our safety, our policy." As-Said...