Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality: Has a modest manner, a quizzical mind, a pungent tongue. Likes to box, wrestle, ski. At 16, wrote a Judo manual in Arabic, entitled How to Defend Yourself, which became an Iraqi army text and a Bagdad bestseller. So far has shown little interest in politics...
...jinx of Iraqi oil is an incredible series of political double-dealings. The British first tried to develop Iraqi oil before World War I, but the Germans cut in and both were stymied. They made a deal and were about to start work when the war interfered. In 1920, with the Germans ousted, the French insisted on getting into the act; then the Americans set up a clamor. Turkish Petroleum was renamed Iraq Petroleum and was divided between Britain, France, the U.S. and The Netherlands, with each holding 23.75%. The remaining 5% went appropriately to the wily old Armenian influence...
...industrialized westerners, the life of Jarmo looks crude, but the Iraqi peasants who live near Jarmo today find it not so strange. Modern villagers still live in houses like those of Jarmo. They still keep their animals in the courtyards and cultivate their scanty crops with tools that are not much better. They still bake their bread in mud ovens that have not changed appreciably since the discovery of agriculture. It took the industrial revolution to make much change in the pattern of village life that was fixed 7,000 years...
...mechanics. At 14, Feisal knotted on his father King Ghazi's old school tie, trundled off to Harrow, England. Today, he is a thin, straw-hatted upperclassman, with a reputation for athletics and authorship. This year, Feisal wrote a judo manual in Arabic for the use of the Iraqi army, presented the first copy to his great uncle King Abdullah of Jordan, who was assassinated last week. Its title: How to Defend Yourself...
Because English weather did not agree with his ailing mother, Queen Aliyah, Iraq's sloe-eyed boy King, Feisal II, 15, decided to change schools, checked out of Harrow and flew home to sunny Baghdad to enter the Iraqi Military College...