Word: iraq
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...change his policy. The incident, however, underlined the differences within the P.L.O., contrasting Arafat's relatively moderate point of view with the harder revolutionary line of George Habash and other adherents of the "rejection front," which includes not only the more militant fedayeen groups but Libya and Iraq as well...
...makes his speech unintelligible and his gestures childlike at times, say visitors to Peking, but Chairman Mao Tse-tung, 81, still rises to the occasion when it comes time to pose with guests like Thailand's Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj and Iraq's Vice President Taha Moheddin Maruf. More mobile, obviously, is the Chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, 61, who surfaced last week in Shansi province to make her first public speech since the chaotic days of the Cultural Revolution more than five years ago. After addressing a conference on Chinese agriculture, Mme. Mao then showed...
...gallery's own collection, the show contains 80 objects, many of superb aesthetic interest, ranging across a period of 800 years. It does not include Turkish or Persian work. As the name implies, the focus is on Arab art as such−mainly from Syria, Egypt and Iraq...
...m.p.h. F-15 is the only aircraft that may be capable of outperforming the MIG-23 "Flogger," which threatens to be Israel's scourge in the air. Thus far the Soviet Union has delivered 70 MIG-23s to Syria, and others are on order in Iraq and Egypt...
...Vetoes. The U.S., Moynihan explained, was ready to vote for the admission of both Viet Nams and of South Korea. But the Communists and such left-leaning but nonaligned members of the council as Iraq and Tanzania blocked South Korea's application from even being included on the agenda. U.S. policymakers were outraged, and the upshot was Moynihan's two vetoes. Never before had the U.S. used the veto to block a membership application.* The U.S., said Moynihan, "will have nothing to do with selective universality, a principle which in practice admits only new members acceptable to totalitarian...