Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barley, bones of such domesticated animals as goats and sheep, and clay figurines of fertility goddesses, some voluptuous, others Twiggy-shaped. Of the 50 artifacts in the display, many of the most interesting come from his initial find at Jarmo. a cluster of some 20 simple dwellings in Iraqi Kurdistan that may well be one of the world's original farming communities. The Jarmoites did not leave a recorded history, but there is no doubt about their sophistication. They put hinged doors on their houses, built chimneys in their walls and, by letting their porridge ferment, possibly brewed...
...shortly joined in Cairo by Jordan's King Hussein, who privately pleaded for some sort of accommodation with Israel-but got nowhere with his fellow Arabs. After he flew home to Amman, the leaders of the Arab left all converged on Cairo; Syria's Noureddin Attassi, Iraqi Strongman Abdel Aref and Sudanese President Ismail el Azhari joined Nasser and Boumediene for two days of nonstop talks in ornate Kubbeh Palace...
...Throughout the Islamic world, Moslem mullahs proclaimed American and British products unholy. Libyan mobs destroyed liquor stores as symbols of Anglo-American "imperialism," and King Idris demanded that the U.S. abandon its Wheelus Air Force Base. Egypt and Syria closed their ports to U.S. and British ships; Sudanese and Iraqi dock workers refused to unload them...
...adroit ploy by the most popular leader in the Arab world, an effort to turn ignominy into personal triumph -and it worked. Angry Algerian street mobs who had been shouting "Lynch Nasser!" suddenly changed their tune. Within 30 minutes Iraqi President Abdel Rahman Aref was on the phone to Cairo urging Nasser to reconsider. Lebanese President Charles Helou wept openly when he heard the news. From Baghdad to Beirut, Arab mobs swept into the streets to demonstrate for Nasser. Often the demonstrations took on an ugly anti-Americanism, as in Beirut, where rioters were so unimaginative as to set fire...
...Pants. Half of the museum's galleries and halls display sculpture and artifacts unearthed by scores of U.S., British, French, German, Japanese and Iraqi archaeological teams from ruins that flourished between 6000 B.C. and A.D. 600. They prove that Iraq's prehistoric village communities were among the first to develop irrigation and contained the world's oldest granaries...