Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolution is reaching epidemic proportions. A revolt in Yemen last September ousted the centuries-old dynasty of the Imam and installed a "republic" that has ever since been propped up by 20,000 Egyptian troops sent in by Gamal Abdel Nasser. In two bloody days' work last month, Iraqi army officers deposed and killed psychotic Dictator Abdul Karim Kassem. Last week, on a quiet, grey Friday morning, the infection reached Syria...
...Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. The Baath party strongly emphasizes unity with all Arab states, including Egypt, but rejects dictatorship by anyone, ineluding Nasser. Its philosophy calls for ittihad, loose federation, and pledges overall allegiance to uruba, a pervasive Pan-Arabism. When news of the Syrian revolt reached the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, a military parade was transformed into a victory celebration, with long lines of citizens and students snake-dancing through the city. In Cairo, Nasser's men hailed the new Syrian regime. It seems probable that Nasser will profit from his past mistakes and settle...
...jammed the square protected from the cold night air by a siwan, a "hall" roofed and walled by brightly colored canvas. "Union! Union! Union! Nasser! Nasser! Nasser!" roared the mob. What it got was a little less than Nasser had hoped for. The leaders of the Iraqi delegation to the celebration, Deputy Premier Ali Saleh Saadi and Foreign Minister Talib Hussein Shabib, were cordial enough, but they were far from specific. Saadi dutifully paid tribute to Egypt as the "mother republic" of the Arab world, but instead of calling for union, he urged only a "frank rapprochement" between Cairo...
...principality Kassem once tried to take over. Tidying up another national problem, Aref sent a helicopter north to pick up two delegates of the Kurdish rebels in the hope that he might negotiate an end to the bloody civil war that has tied up half the 75,000-man Iraqi army; he even made friendly overtures to the U.S.-British controlled Iraq Petroleum Co., which Kassem had alienated...
...still going into jails. The result was one of the biggest single Red propaganda barrages since the Reds charged the U.S. with using germ warfare in Korea. Pravda's correspondent claimed, "I saw tanks crush women and children," and reported the "physical annihilation of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Iraqi democrats and patriots.'' The Pravda man went looking for Aziz Sharif, a 1962 Lenin Peace prizewinner at the office of the Peace Partisans League (a euphemism for Red militia). A soldier on guard at the office told him. "That dog has long since been jailed...