Word: iraq
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...Party; and 2) Salah Bitar, Aflak's disciple and the present Baathist Premier of Syria. Denouncing the two as fascists, secessionists, traitors, moral lepers and "seekers after power," Nasser blasted them as solely responsible for the collapse of the unity agreement concluded last April between Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The agreement called for a merger of the three nations into a greater United Arab Republic, but in the months since, it has become increasingly obvious that Nasser and the Baath Party were each determined to capture the leadership of the new U.A.R. and exclude the other...
...rift comes at a bad time for Nasser, who has a 28,000-man Egyptian expeditionary force-at the far end of a long supply line-bogged down in a nasty little desert war with the royalists of Yemen. But the two Baath nations are having worse troubles. Iraq is deeply committed to wiping out the Kurdish rebellion in its northern provinces, and it is becoming clear that the Kurdish war is not going well. Syria is rolling downhill economically at an appalling speed, and though its Baathist regime has survived two Nasserite revolts, it may crumple before a third...
...Strategy. Nasser last week tried a lover's trick to split his foes: he began wooing Syria's Baathist ally, Iraq. In a coaxingly worded invitation, Nasser urged Iraq's President Abdul Salam Aref to visit Cairo "to see personally how much the Egyptian people like you and their Iraqi brothers." Though known to have pro-Nasser sympathies, Aref played it safe by politely refusing the invitation, and pointedly phoned Syria's Bitar to assure him of Iraq's support...
Nasser also made an impressive display of military muscle. Down the handsome Nile Corniche road in Cairo rolled new, two-stage rockets capable of launching a satellite into earth orbit and putting Israel, as well as Syria and Iraq, within easy missile range. Other new weapons included amphibious tanks, antiaircraft rockets, ground-to-air missiles, and supersonic jet fighters with speeds up to 1,350 m.p.h...
...churches of Russia, Czechoslovakia, the U.S., Cyprus, Poland, Finland, and all the Near East. Guests from other faiths included top U.S. Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry, Willem Visser 't Hooft of the World Council, Roman Catholic Benedictine monks, and delegations from the Coptic Church of Egypt, the Nestorians of Iraq and Syria, the Armenian Catholicate of Cilicia...