Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Relations between the Moslem nations of Iraq and Iran have never been very warm. Most Iraqis are Arabs, but the majority of Iranians pride themselves on being ethnically distinct Persians. Each country has large numbers of its citizens residing across unguarded boundaries in the other, which encourages illegal immigration and smuggling...
Flags flew at half-mast in a dozen countries. Chanted verses from the Koran replaced other programs on Iraq and Sudan television. Lebanon's Parliament stood five minutes in silent tribute. Kuwait radiomen wept over the air as they described his funeral. Behind his flag-draped casket walked both wailing women and men in tears. They weren't all Kuwaitis. Sobbed a visiting Jordanian: "I wish it had been me who had to die instead...
...cooling winds of moderation continue to blow across the Middle East. Last week in Iraq, reversing a virtually uninterrupted forced march to extreme socialism and dictatorship that began in 1958, Premier Abdel Rahman Bazzaz suggested Baghdad's sweeping nationalization laws had gone too far, declared it was time for a turn to private industry and Western foreign in vestments. Moreover, guaranteeing in dividual rights in a fashion unheard of in modern Iraq, Bazzaz, the quiet, Western-oriented technician whom President Abdul Salem Aref installed two months ago, decreed that henceforth no Iraqi citizen may be arrested without a warrant...
Betrayal. The Arab swing from the left is dictated by the hard facts of economic life: the need for Western aid, investment and know-how, the failure of extreme socialism to salvage the hemorrhaging economies of Egypt and Iraq. Algeria, too, under Colonel Houari Boumedienne, has retreated from deposed Strongman Ben Bella's far-left bent. And when Ben Bella went, Nasser lost his only real revolutionary pal in the Arab world...
...expected to bring forth a better life on the Ni'e. When the project is completed in 1971, Aswan Dam will put 2,400,000 acres of new land into cultivation, generate 10 billion kw-hours of electricity annually and, hopefully, double Egypt's national income. In Iraq, where water is so scarce that the penalty for maliciously damaging an irrigation works is death, plans are being made to dam the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for power and irrigation. Brazil has just completed the $186 million Furnas Dam, South America's largest hydroelectric complex. In a project...