Word: iraq
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Cause & Effect. The overthrow of the neighboring Turkish government this spring disturbed the Shah and his court. He also vividly remembers the uprising in Iraq which ended with the assassination of King Feisal. There is ample cause for unrest in the Shah's kingdom, and from across the border, Radio Moscow keeps up a steady drumfire of abuse. In his shabby capital of Teheran, a small portion of the population lives in splendor while the rest exist in the squalor of centuries, washing themselves in the open gutter jubes which double as sewers and water mains. In the arid...
...Iraq, whose classic and convulsive revolution, to say nothing of her geography, offered a made-in-heaven target for the new Soviet tactics, has moved progressively away from Communist influence...
There are occasional flat passages in the book, and some embarrassing ones, as when Frankfurter recalls being introduced to Prince Feisal of Iraq ("Here was little me meeting this Arab prince!"). But it is suffused with his love for the law, that towering edifice which is "all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling." Frankfurter lays down the axiom that "the worst public servants are narrow-minded lawyers, and the best are broad-minded lawyers." He neglects to say who should make the determination. But readers may feel that...
...strongest advocates inside Russia's ruling Presidium of Khrushchev's policy of easier relations with the West. In fact, Mikoyan has been its most conspicuous salesman in the West. He served as Khrushchev's advance man in the U.S., peddled the soft line in Cuba and Iraq...
Nasser was getting wide support even from his rivals in the Arab world. Tunisia, Jordan and Iraq unions backed the boycott. U.S. commerce would suffer slightly and Nasser's United Arab Republic stood to lose some badly needed machinery and wheat. In Manhattan, the federal courts had refused to interfere, and on Pier 16 the pickets trudged on, ignoring a plea from the State Department that such "an effort by a private group to apply pressure publicly with a view to bringing about shifts in the policies of foreign governments is embarrassing to our government's foreign relations...