Word: iraq
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...attempted to overthrow whenever [that regime] showed signs of insubordination or refused to remain in the Egyptian orbit," and Bourguiba ticked off names and dates from Jordan in 1955 to his own country in 1959. To Nasser's further embarrassment, last week a Nasserite coup was staged in Iraq and failed abjectly (see below...
...INHERITANCE (NBC, 2-3 p.m.). A recreation of Biblical history through filmed explorations of Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan and Israel. Color...
...Aviation Ministry Engineer Frank Bossard, 52, was sentenced to 21 years for photographing and selling, since 1961, heaps of missile data to the Soviets for $14,000. In another case, a Defense Ministry clerk. Sergeant Percy Allen, 33, got ten years for peddling data on Israeli arms to Iraq and Egypt...
...years of existence, the Central Treaty Organization has never been much of an alliance. One of the original members, Iraq, soon dropped out. As others-Iran, Pakistan and Turkey -became more chummy with Moscow, CENTO's essential purpose as a military shield against Communist aggression lost its urgency. Nevertheless, alliances seem to have a life of their own, and last week delegates from the CENTO nations gathered solemnly in Teheran for the 13th ministerial meeting. With the opening speeches out of the way, the delegates spent two days composing a communique that satisfied no one, yet had the sound...
...since turned out two scripts for Elvis Presley, a Western, two comedies (Wives and Lovers and Boeing, Boeing) and, for Paramount, Affair in Arcady ("I call it an original because the novel was about a Chicago gangster turned Virginia farmer and the screenplay was about the late dictator of Iraq, Kassem"). He has just completed a TV script, A Time for Killing, with George C. Scott (Bob Hope Chrysler Theater, April 30), and is working on The Cruel Sport, a screen script about "the morality of Grand Prix racing...