Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chosen Martyr. For weeks Iraq's Communists had been calling strikes and engaging in street brawls with National Democratic supporters of Premier Karim Kassem, in protest against their progressive exclusion from Iraq's revolutionary regime (TIME, April 11). Now at last they had a martyr. They shoved Shakhnoub's body into a conveniently waiting coffin and marched on the capital, demanding to see Premier Kassem himself. The police tried to stop them. Only keening louder, the mourners broke through and dashed for Kassem's headquarters. Near Baghdad's imposing Defense Ministry, the procession came...
...Although Russia a year ago offered the new revolutionary regime a $138 million line of credit to finance Russian imports and Russian aid projects, Iraqis say that the Russians are slow on delivery and their prices are too high. Receiving Mikoyan correctly but with pronounced coolness, Kassem reiterated that Iraq "refuses to bow to imperialism or any greedy quarter"-"greedy" being the favorite Kassem euphemism for Russian stooges in Iraq. Said Kassem to Mikoyan: "The command of our chariot is independent...
...they get particularly chaotic, jaunty President Sukarno has a favorite tactic: he takes a trip. Last week he climbed aboard a chartered Pan American DC-6 (estimated cost: $250,000), smiled at his favorite stewardess-curvesome, redheaded Joanie Sweeney-and took off on a two-month world tour (India, Iraq, Soviet satellites, U.A.R., Africa and Cuba), his third in three years. Behind him he left a country bogged in inflationary chaos, a nasty diplomatic quarrel with Peking, a desultory but costly rebellion, and fresh political confusion created by his last-minute appointment of a new Parliament to replace the elected...
...Communists are still a major force in the ill-disciplined life of post-revolutionary Iraq. But today in Baghdad people no longer talk of an impending Communist takeover. Overaggressive Red tactics have wearied public opinion. Though Premier Karim Kassem still accepts Communist support to balance off pro-Nasser Arab nationalist elements, he refuses to license the regular party as a lawful political entity. In Basra, once a Communist citadel, authorities have jailed about 100 Communist labor leaders on charges of misappropriating union funds. Last week the Court of Cassation forbade the Communist-run Democratic Youth League permission to open...
Died. Ivan Karaivanov, 71, Bulgarian-born, Moscow-trained international Communist agent who organized Iraq's Reds during World War II, sided with Yugoslavia during the Tito-Stalin rift, became a close Tito crony, a member of the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party; of kidney and heart ailments; in Belgrade...