Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greed Unwelcome. To the discomfiture of Iraqi Communists, Shakhnoub's aborted martyrdom stole the headlines from what had been expected to be a big Communist triumph in Baghdad, a visit by Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. Although Russia a year ago offered the new revolutionary regime a $138 million line of credit to finance Russian imports and Russian aid projects, Iraqis say that the Russians are slow on delivery and their prices are too high. Receiving Mikoyan correctly but with pronounced coolness, Kassem reiterated that Iraq "refuses to bow to imperialism or any greedy quarter"-"greedy" being...
...year ago the Communists were the masters of Baghdad's streets, lords of the Iraqi press and radio, the wire-pulling bosses controlling the country's peasant, student and labor unions. Suspicion was that they could take over the country whenever they wished...
Stay Back. It was just the sort of thing the headstrong Iraqi like, and Kassem himself could use a boost to his sagging popularity. Since the attempt on his life, he no longer cruises about in his old Chevrolet station wagon; he now rides in a bulletproof ZIM. His public appearances are limited to ten minutes each, and no stranger is allowed within 20 yards of him. In Baghdad, for the first time, there is even an occasional wisecrack about...
...after exactly 18 months in power, Kassem is still quite literally Iraq's "sole leader," and he apparently feels he can afford some changes. The Iraqi press, 'though a year ago Communist-dominated, now is permitted a degree of opposition unknown in Cairo, Jordan or Iran. Last week political parties were applying for licenses to operate legally for the first time since 1954. And though the Communists have for 18 months enjoyed Kassem's favor, he has succeeded so far in keeping them pretty well at arm's length...
Today the Ministry of Guidance is totally under the Communist thumb, and each morning the military censor duly sends to the Iraqi Times the latest Red China news bulletins with passages marked for reprinting. But for the first time, the Communists themselves are divided. Last week not one but two Communist parties asked for licenses-the orthodox outfit and another run by a maverick Marxist editor named Daoud Sayegh, who has done nothing to scotch rumors that much of his money comes out of the pocket of Premier Kassem's government...