Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Iraq, where politics are seldom clear-cut, recent visitors have been impressed with a change of mood. Thirty months ago, Westerners were being taunted in the streets of Baghdad; today they are more welcome than in most other Middle East capitals...
...Style. Iraqis date the change from last November, when the Communists organized a strike of tobacco workers in Baghdad. Apparently, this was too much for Iraq's "sole leader," Major General Abdel Kerim Kassem. Army troops turned on the demonstrators, brusquely broke up the strike. Since then, 28 Communists have been condemned to death and ten others sentenced to terms of life imprisonment for atrocities perpetrated in the 1959 rioting. Party workers have been purged from government offices, the army and the trade unions. The Russian ambassador himself recently got a two-hour raking over from Kassem, who accused...
...Manhattan, the U.N.'s Hammarskjold sent cable after cable pleading for troop contributions from Mexico, Iraq, Iran and India, but got solid pledges from nobody. The new U.N. Congo Commander, Ireland's Lieut. General Sean McKeown, warned that the present 20,000-man force was the "bare minimum requirement" to prevent civil war. At week's end Hammarskjold gloomily informed the Security Council that unless replacement troops were forthcoming, he might have to propose "liquidation of the force, and in consequence, the entire United Nations Congo operation...
...great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates (now part of Iraq), founded one of the world's first major civilizations. But only in this century have scholars come to know the Sumerians with any thoroughness, chipping away at the sites of such ancient city-states as Ur, Lagash and Mari. Last week a U.S. expedition, sponsored by the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, was at work at the site of the holy city of Nippur, the seat...
...secretary of state, technician, international socialite and world economist. He has to worry about everything from the dumping of cheap Russian oil on world markets ("aimed at creating dissension and undermining the economies of free nations") to the lightning-quick onslaught of national revolutions (he got out of Iraq and Lebanon just before fighting broke out in each place). He must be ready to chat with the Duke of Edinburgh about how to bring up children, which he did recently at the dedication of a British plant, or sacrifice his digestion to insistent entertainers...