Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...including 13 Jews, and holding hundreds of others in jail. They include former Premier Abdel Rahman Bazzaz and ex-Defense Minister Major General Abdel Aziz Uqaili. Also among them was an American engineer, Paul Bail, who was on loan from Esso to the Iraq Petroleum Co. Friends said that Iraqi police apparently suspected that an elaborate hi-fi set in his home was actually a radio transmitter. Baghdad later promised to be "tolerant" and said that "he may be released in the next few days...
...times last week it seemed that the area's fourth war in two decades was al ready in progress. Israeli and Jordanian artillery opened up on two successive days. For the first time, Israelis also hit at the 15,000 Iraqi troops stationed in Jordan, who recently started firing their long-range, 122-mm. Russian heavy guns into Israel. Israeli jets flashed across the cease-fire lines three times to bomb the area around the Jordanian town of Irbid and hammer at the artillery positions of the 421st Iraqi battalion. Deep inside Jordan, Israeli commandos blew up two vital...
...continuing detention in Algiers of an El Al Boeing airliner, seven crewmen and five Israeli passengers, the victims of a commando hijacking last month. Last week, in a novel legal gambit, Iraq announced that it would sue in Algeria to have the Boeing impounded pending release of an Iraqi MIG-21 that a defecting pilot had flown to Israel last year. But international pressure was building up for release of the El Al plane and the detained Israelis. Commercial pilots spoke of boycotting Algerian airports. Israel enlisted the aid of 30 nations that have relations with both itself and Algeria...
...Rahman Aref and announced: "I am speaking from the Ministry of Defense. Tanks are now proceeding toward the palace." Aref received quick confirmation when five warning shots split the quiet night. He chose to capitulate. Soon, with hardly a hint of further violence, he was put aboard a special Iraqi airliner to join his ailing wife in London. In his place, a nine-man, military "revolutionary Command Council" effortlessly established itself in power...
...Neanderthalensis, so named for the Central European valley in which his bones were discovered, survived for 2,000 generations and seems to have had the same sensitivities as his descendants. Writing in the monthly report of the French Prehistoric Society, Archaeologist Arlette Leroi-Gourhan described a cave on the Iraqi side of the Zagros Mountains where a 5-ft. 8-in. Neanderthal man was buried by his friends on a bier of wild flowers. Pollen from blossoms plucked 60,000 years ago in mourning for the unknown hunter came from primordial hyacinths, hollyhocks, and bachelor's buttons. Proving...