Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Longer a Minority. Dynamic Israel indeed faces problems, but its achievements have been tremendous. The Israel of 1956 is strikingly different from the newborn republic of eight years ago. Only 20% of the 717,997 immigrants who arrived from Europe, North Africa, Yemen and Iraq between 1948 and 1953-at the rate of one every three minutes-still live in temporary accommodations, and the dominant feature of the Israeli landscape is no longer the tent camp of the first years of statehood but the ubiquitous, neat, garage-sized concrete houses-the longed-for "permanent" housing. Along the Jerusalem Road, where...
...girl from their differing homes and integrates them into the life of the nation, has done the decisive educational work. Every army commander is told that he is primarily a teacher, and "only when you go into battle are you a military commander." Today five Jews newly arrived from Iraq, Yemen and Libya sit in Parliament, and the first Yemeni boys have won air force pilots' wings. The doubling of Israel's population in its first six years while retaining the form and spirit of Western democracy is a remarkable achievement of internal stability...
...board is also busy with other good works: $50.4 million for schools, hospitals and other public buildings, $75 million for roads and bridges. Its new $30 million refinery provides Iraq with gasoline at 15? a gallon (though heavy taxes lift it up to 29? a gallon). Ancient, reeking Baghdad (pop. 550,000), which bears almost no resemblance to the flower-decked Arabian Nights pleasure dome that the Caliph Harun al-Rashid (786-809) shared so opulently with 2,000,000 subjects, is getting low-cost housing, a sewage system, some badly needed modern streets, and the promise of room...
Nuri es-Said's program, in the view of one Washington observer, "is by far the most enlightened and far-seeing program of national development and use of oil revenues anywhere in the Middle East." Yet "Iraq's tragedy," says one American specialist, "is that she needs everything but money." The financing of Nuri's program inside the country was made vastly more difficult when 123,000 dissatisfied Jews migrated to Israel and drained the country of much of its banking and commercial skills. Its realization will be all the harder because too few Iraqis know...
...firmly convinced that Iraq's foreign policy, its new commitment to the West, has now been shaped for a long time to come. "Look," he says, "the Baghdad pact goes on whether I die or retire or get voted out." He added characteristically: "Before we signed it, I got the approval of every ex-Prime Minister [Iraq has half a dozen]. Any Prime Minister we would get to replace me would be already committed to the pact...