Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judgment that his policy failed to achieve what it was designed to achieve, and that the cease-fire agreement was the final, inconclusive half-measure of a series of mis calculations. He had taken only half the canal, and Nasser was still in power. The canal was blocked, the Iraq pipeline sabotaged, and Britain faced a winter of cold homes and industrial shutdowns. Not for this should he have risked the good will of Britain's most powerful ally, outraged the Commonwealth, aroused the Arab world to outspoken hostility, incurred the opprobrium of the world, and divided...
Egypt and Iraq had withdrawn, would not be present to compete with their enemies. The Communist Chinese had pulled out in a fit of pique over an invitation to the Nationalists. Solemnly Avery Brundage, the International Olympic Committee's president, insisted that "in an imperfect world, if participation in sports is to be stopped every time the politicians violate the laws of humanity, there will never be any international contests." The Olympics, he argued, are above politics; the games must...
...Britain's Iraq Petroleum pipeline, running from Iraq to the Mediterranean, has been blown up in so many places in Syria that its 500,000-bbl. daily flow has been completely shut off. If and when Britain resumes diplomatic relations with Syria, Britain may be able to pump oil at 40% capacity by using stations in Iraq; restoring the line to full capacity may take six months or longer...
Some oilmen expect the oil-rich Arab nations to come to terms soon and get the oil flowing again, since they are losing heavily. Iraq is losing about $450,000 daily because it cannot move its oil, has had to cut production at its Kirkuk field drastically; Syria sacrifices $50,000 daily in pipeline earnings alone; Saudi Arabia gets an estimated 85% of its income from oil (some $290 million in 1955). On the other hand, as one old Middle East hand grumbled last week, "You can never really depend on the Arabs' not hurting themselves. They...
...nationalism, the most remarkable feature of the Arab world's reaction to the invasion was, in fact, the failure of the dictator's allies to rush to his help with much besides talk. Morocco and Tunisia proclaimed themselves on Nasser's side. So did Saudi Arabia. Iraq's rulers denounced Britain's "aggression." But this Baghdad Pact partner of the British was racked by conflicting emotions -secret satisfaction at seeing its chief Arab rival in trouble, open hatred for Israel. Syria-presumably Nasser's stoutest friend-broke off diplomatic relations with France and Britain...