Word: iraq
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...past there have also been walkouts and bannings; Italy and France pulled out of the fencing in the 1912 Stockholm Games after a dispute over the rules. In 1956 Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon did not compete because of the Suez crisis. In the 1920 Antwerp Games and the 1948 London Games, the loser nations from the world wars were barred. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, the Soviet Union stayed out of Olympic competition until the 1952 Helsinki Games. But never before have strictly pragmatic political considerations, as in the case of Canada v. Taiwan, been thrust upon the Games...
Then there are those scholars who not only bring their lives to Widener but, in fact, find it difficult to separate the two. Whether or not he "tries to become an American" next year, Fawzi Abdulrazak, a native of Iraq, will continue to work in the library. He must because Widener, where he edits the annual bibliography of Arabic historical writings, is what he calls "my country." Neither his classes at B.U. where he is working towards a masters in African history, nor his work as an Arabic specialist at the near Eastern Studies Center, serves as such faithful reminders...
...this country you are busy. The minute you get up you go to work then you go home, eat, watch the news, and go to sleep. There is no time for your own private studies. Life goes on. You see nothing." Still, Fawzi expressed no regrets about leaving Iraq "not really for political reasons," but in order to marry his American wite whom he met while they were both working in Algeria. Fawzi said that his decision to leave the land, which his family has farmed for centuries, was not one that many Iraquis would make. Most Iraqui emigrants...
...Syria, at the same time, there are still some grave problems. By agreeing to and upholding the ceasefire, the Syrians would reduce the chances of a confrontation with both the Palestinians and such radical Arab states as its hostile neighbor Iraq, where suspicious movement of troops last week caused Syria to shift some of its own troops to its eastern border. But Damascus will assuredly not give up its goal of preventing the Arab radicals and the P.L.O. from gaining a free hand in Lebanon and provoking a confrontation with Israel. If there seems any strong danger of that...
Yamani was hinting that the remaining 40% would be nationalized within a few months. Yet for all the pressures on the Saudis to move ahead, including 100% takeovers of Western oil consortiums in Iraq, Kuwait and, recently, Venezuela, negotiations faltered-and not only over the amount of compensation. For one thing, the assassination of King Faisal last year distracted attention from Aramco. Then too the companies themselves were unable to agree on some items because of their differing goals...