Word: iraq
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...told, Sadat was taking some venturesome steps at a time when the Middle East's other protagonists were hesitant about taking any steps at all. Before the Salzburg summit, he prepared his ground skillfully by swinging through Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan and Syria. Accordingly, he will meet Ford not merely as Egypt's representative but, he said in Damascus, as the spokesman of all the Arab people...
...returns from this massive investment can be seen in striking ways. There are an estimated 1,000 Soviet military advisers in Iraq, as well as hundreds of civilian technicians. Another 1,000 civilian technicians are in Syria. Despite Anwar Sadat's 1972 expulsion order, as many as 2,000 Soviet technicians and an equal number of dependents remain in Egypt...
Meanwhile, the Russians are also realizing that close friendship has its hazards. Iraq and Syria, whose rival Baath parties have been quarreling for years, are now involved in an even more feral argument over sharing the Euphrates' water; the Soviets are damned if they take sides and damned if they don't. Moscow is also faced with an inevitable conflict between Communism and either Arab nationalism or Moslem theocracy, or both...
...Egyptian President nonetheless remains the dominant Arab spokesman in current moves toward peace negotiations. Preparing to meet next week with President Ford in Salzburg, Sadat wound up a series of visits to Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan and Syria in search of an Arab consensus. He found a formula for the knotty problem of Palestinian representation at any future Geneva Conference. King Hussein would represent Jordan; at the same time, however, a Palestinian delegation would be designated, and other Arab states, with support from the Soviets, would press the U.S. to seat it along with Hussein...
Mockery in Arms by James Aldridge (Little, Brown; $7.95) is the only book of the lot that succeeds as a novel and not simply as a page turner. The author is fascinated by the wild, squabbling, Kurdish people of Iran, Iraq and Turkey, and their struggle for independence. A discovery of natural gas and oil in Kurdish territory seems a likely source of financing for the Kurds, but when they try to buy arms with the money officially paid for exploitation rights, the funds disappear into Europe's banking system. A Scottish paleontologist named MacGregor tries to help...