Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quiescent Imam whom the British worry about. He is the chief threat to the garrison post from which they watch over their Persian Gulf oil interests. Reassured, the British are now preparing to create a second federation in Aden's even emptier Eastern Protectorate, where the British-run Iraq Petroleum Co. hopes to find...
Underground for Survival. The Mandaeans, markedly taller and fairer than the swarthy Arabs of Iraq, sometimes identify themselves in their broken English as "John Baptist Christians." But the suggestion that they are some kind of primitive Christian sect with a special reverence for John the Baptist is false-and deliberately so. The Mandaeans are neither Moslems, nor Jews, nor Christians...
These pre-Christian Baptists are all but extinct today; barely 5,000 of them live on in Iraq, and in each generation there are fewer and fewer priests who can become bishops. Reason: a new prelate traditionally should be consecrated in the presence of a dying man who is to carry the bishop's words to paradise...
Died. Sir Leonard Woolley, 79, British archaeologist whose excavations uncovered important portions of ancient Middle East civilizations, including the city of Ur in Iraq, from which Abraham started out to found the Hebrew nation; in London...
...more than a year, a steady stream of Soviet aid and military equipment poured into Iraq. But even in aid, Iraq has proved stubborn. It has stayed clear of nationalizing the profitable oil industry, whose exports last year rose to a record 39 million tons. The vaunted land-reform program has not touched the huge plantations that each year give Iraq the world's largest date crop. And last week, as a result of old-fashioned consumer resistance, Iraq ended a year-long attempt to direct trade toward the Communist bloc by once again allowing Western automobiles to come...