Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sight all too familiar to turbulent Iraq, which generally averages at least two revolts a year. Automatic rifles cracked through the streets. Seven Iraqi air force MIG-19s whined low over the presidential palace, peppering it with rockets. Tanks took up positions at the Baghdad radio station. For the second time in ten months, former Premier Aref Abdel Razzak, 42, was up to his old tricks, launching a coup in the name of Nasser-style socialism. The bulk of the army rallied to the side of the government, quashing the uprising. The difference was that last week President Abdel Rahman...
...what could be Aref's biggest achievement in office. Over nationwide television the day before, Iraqi Premier Abdel Rahman Bazzaz announced a twelve-point peace program for ending the government's bloody, five-year war with the 1,000,000 fiercely independent Kurdish tribesmen living in Iraq's mountainous northeast. For years the Kurds have been demanding a measure of autonomy from the Baghdad government, and Razzak realized that a settlement might well make Aref and Bazzaz so popular as to be almost invincible...
...Iraq may not have major-league baseball or daylight-saving time, but it has come to recognize an equally reliable sign of spring. Each year, as the snows melt in the lofty mountain passes along the border of northern Iraq, the sporadic, five-year-old guerrilla rebellion of Iraq's stubborn 1,500,000 Kurdish tribesmen flares up again-fueled by fresh weapons and ammunition lugged in by donkey caravan over the mountains from fellow Kurds in Iran...
...last week things were back to normal. Shortly after Kurdish terrorists tried to blow up the Iraq Petroleum Co. pipeline from Kirkuk to Syria (damaging it slightly), Iraq government MIG-17s and MIG-19s blasted Kurdish supply routes at the base of Zozok Mountain, near the border, plastering hillside, countryside and villages in the neighborhood with machine-gun bullets, rockets and napalm. Kurdish sharpshooters sat out the attacks in caves, surprised army patrols on isolated roads, swooped down one night on the tents of an Iraqi army battalion stationed near the town of Ruwandiz...
SOUTHERN BAPTIST HOUR (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). "Of Picks, Shovels, and Words," a special on how the Bible has been used to guide archaeologists in locating and excavating ancient sites, filmed on location in Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan and Israel...