Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three months after the Kassim government came to power, the British were selling him arms; their technicians were helping him reorganize his economy; their statesmen and industrialists were offering aid in a variety of areas. And all this, while Iraq was withdrawing from the Baghdad Pact, while the Communists waved Kassim's portrait in the May Day Parade, and while the press in both Iraq and Britain enjoyed and orgy of mutual slander which is only now beginning to abate. The British took these violent insults, even from Kassim himself, diplomatically. They didn't alter their foreign policy...
...anyway, Nasser's street mobs and secret agents have so riled the Arab leaders that nearly all mistrust him. Though they still are wary of his power over the bazaars and the street mobs, neither Jordan's King Hussein, nor Saudi Arabia's King Saud nor Iraq's Premier Karim Kassem has proved willing to accept his leadership. The Sudan, Libya and Lebanon remain cautiously aloof, despite Nasser's best efforts. Though Nasser supported the Algerian rebels with arms and sanctuary, the current peace negotiations are the work of Tunisia's moderate President Bourguiba...
Died. Ayatollah Boroujerdi, 89, leader of the Shiites, one of the world's largest Moslem sects, spiritual guide of 70 million believers, chiefly in Iran and Iraq; of a heart attack after fasting for the holy month of Ramadan; in Qum, Iran...
Zippers & Fireplugs. Mijbil, the hero of this book, was about as ottery as an otter can get. Author Maxwell picked him up as a pup in the swamp country of Iraq -unaware at the time that in finding a pet he had also discovered a new subspecies (Lutirogale perspicillata maxwelli...
...tension has pervaded all levels and classes. At a political rally recently, Sole Leader Kassem orated to his working-class audience: "Like you, I have only one shirt." Out of the crowd came a heckler's cry: "Before you came, I had two." Such casual impudence belongs to Iraq's new mood...