Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pieces from a still undiscovered prehistoric game. In 1966 Pierre Amiet, curator of Near Eastern art at the Louvre, suggested that the tokens were an ancient recording system. Schmandt-Besserat agrees. After comparing the tokens with samples of early writing discovered in Warka, a community in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), she concluded that they were part of a sophisticated system of record keeping that eventually evolved into writing. Said she: 'This is not writing at 8000 B.C., but a totally different process of written communication...
Other passages are equally expansive. Followers of Moses who crossed the Red Sea, according to Numbers 34: 3-12, inherited a land that included much of present Israel and parts of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Some Arabs might judge the Lord's injunction to Moses in Deuteronomy 1: 7 as an early example of Zionist expansionism: "turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites* and unto all the places nigh there unto, as far as the great river Euphrates...
...Eritreans today are also supported by most of the other Arab states-Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq and Kuwait. The Arabs have always tended to favor the Eritreans over the Ethiopians because they wanted the region to be Arab-oriented. Today the Arab states support Eritrea for an additional reason: the Soviets support Eritrea's enemy, Ethiopia. The Arabs are anxious that the Horn of Africa should not become a Russian zone of influence...
Perez is optimistic about an eventual settlement. But other OPEC leaders are being typically cantankerous. The three hard-liners for higher prices -Iran, Iraq and Nigeria-seem committed to press ahead with the 5% rise...
...averaging 10 million bbl. per day, has increased more than 15% since last year. A fire at an Aramco facility has temporarily crimped Saudi performance. Still, the big losers in the price competition have so far been Iran, whose production last month fell 16%. to 5.41 billion bbl., and Iraq, whose output is nearly one-third below its 1976 level...