Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between their knees. Their bodyguards wore pistols in heavy holsters that sagged down to their knees, and the bullets in the bandoleers had been filed arrow-sharp. Almost all of Kuwait's tiny, 1,600-man army of tough Bedouins roared up to the northern bor der with Iraq in British-built armored cars, thoroughly alarmed at reports that Iraq was massing tanks just across the border. Only six days after Kuwait declared itself an independent nation and no longer a protectorate of Great Britain, Iraq had announced it was annexing its oil-rich neighbor...
...Gulf, and they do it on the simple theory that their nomadic ancestors once roamed the ground in question. Backward Yemen claims all of the Aden Protectorate, whose border is disputed in turn by Saudi Arabia, which has claims on Muscat and Oman as well. Iran claims Bahrein, and Iraq's rulers have always coveted the desert sheikdom of Kuwait, currently the richest country per acre and per capita in the Middle East. But nobody ever took the claim seriously until General Abdul Karim Kassem, "sole leader" of Iraq, announced during the course of a three-hour tirade that...
...Arab neighbor. Arab propagandists took up the cudgels in their own fashion. "Communism," the Baghdad daily Al-Fajr al-Jadid explained to its readers, "is to all intents and purposes a Jewish concept." READ ABOUT THE PART PLAYED BY THE ISRAELI COMMUNIST PARTY IN GUIDING THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRAQ, blared a hot-selling pamphlet in Cairo, obviously subsidized by the government at 8? a copy...
...most important voice backing Nasser came from Iraq's Major General Abdul Karim Kassem, who, like Nasser, has accepted lavish Soviet aid. Premier Kassem last week fired the entire executive committee of the Iraq Press Association on the vague ground that they were "serving Communism and deriving their inspiration exclusively from Sputniks." Taking over as the new press-association president, pro-Nasser Publisher Al Haj Taha al Fayez rapped out an angry editorial in his daily Al-Fajr al-Jadid: "The sun of the Communists has set. The Communist countries are falling to bits through starvation and ruination...
...result of this approach, the Communist Party is today shorn of power in Iraq. Instead of flaunting political and economic hostility when Kassim began trade with Russia, the English set out to replace their discarded economic relations with more equitable trade agreements. Kassim was not forced, therefore, to regear his economy; Soviet trade could complement, but not dictate, Iraqi development...