Word: iraq
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...jubilant delegations dashed between Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo last week, the Arab world was awash with joy. Crowds swarmed in the streets chanting the slogan, "Unity. Freedom, Socialism!" In Cairo and Damascus, mobs shouted. "Nasser! Nasser! Union tomorrow!" Iraq's Deputy Premier Ali Saleh Saadi cried. "The Arab world will now certainly unite. This is an old aspiration. What is new is that it has now become possible...
...regime survived three major and countless minor conspiracies, but once Iraq rebelled against Dictator Kassem in the name of Arab unity, the Syrian, regime was doomed. Six Cabinet ministers re signed discreetly, and when members of the Baath (Renaissance) party were asked to replace them, they refused. Desperate President Koudsi eagerly offered to unite Syria with the new revolutionary government of Iraq but received no official reply from Baghdad. Schools were closed to prevent student demonstrations against the government, and tanks and armored cars patrolled the streets of Damascus...
Damascus radio went on the air proclaiming the Baathist slogans of "Unity, Freedom, Socialism!" A jubilant Syrian army officer at a border post said. ''We want unity, not with Nasser, but with all Arabs." As in Iraq, the Syrian National Council of the Revolutionary Command insisted on anonymity. The new 20-man Cabinet has only two military men, and the Baath party is strongly represented. New Premier Salah El-Bitar, 45, is a former Syrian Foreign Minister and a Baathist with strong sympathies toward Arab unity. A tall, hulking Damascene with dark, brooding eyes and brilliantined hair...
...militia). A soldier on guard at the office told him. "That dog has long since been jailed.'' The Soviet Red Cross even appealed to the International Red Cross to help protect Communists, whom it preferred to call ''the democratic patriots victimized by bloody persecution in Iraq...
When the first hectic days were over, the novices would get around to answering Gamal Abdel Nasser's cry for union. At week's end Iraq's thinking was summed up by Foreign Minister Shahib, who proposed a joint meeting of the four "liberated" Arab states (Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria) to "coordinate work among them in various fields with a unionist revolutionary and socialist tendency...