Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrived, the column was surrounded by machine-gun-toting commandos, quickly withdrew when the fedayeen commander delivered a matter-of-fact announcement: "You have three minutes to decide whether you leave or die." The rest of the Arab world has taken up the fedayeen with nearly unanimous vigor. Iraq and Syria offer training programs for several thousand commandos. The Persian Gulf states, led by Kuwait, raise money for them through a 5% tax on the salaries of their tens of thousands of resident Palestinian workers, and a recent fund drive in Lebanon brought in $500,000 from Beirut alone...
India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ire land, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, South Korea, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Luxembourg, Malagasy Republic, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines...
...were joined by seven other nations-Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Somalia. And there was no telling how many more might quit. India was threatening to pull out; so was the Soviet Union. The U.S. was committed to competing-but some Negro athletes were certain to boycott on their own. With all that pressure, at week's end, crustaceous I.O.C. Chairman Avery Brundage reluctantly agreed to put the question of a second vote on South Africa up to his executive committee...
...work of Meir Ben-Uri, 59, one of Israel's leading religious painters and synagogue designers, who made a long, scholarly study of the historical evidence. Many geologists reckon that around 4000 B.C. a flood devastated what is now Iraq; archaeologists have dug up cuneiform tablets in the region relating the tale of a man who survived by building a vessel...
...reasoned that the ark was probably built of either bamboo or lightweight wood, both common to southern Iraq. To reconstruct the design, he relied entirely on God's cryptic commands to Noah (Genesis 6: 14-16) that the ark should have a door in its side, a skylight and three decks. The Scriptures mention three dimensions: the vessel was to be 300 cubits (492 ft.) long, 50 cubits (82 ft.) wide, and 30 cubits (49 ft.) high. That would make it somewhat larger than a World War II Liberty ship. After exhaustive reckoning, Ben-Uri concluded that to meet...