Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Double Guard. Bombs shook the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh and the border towns of Najran and Jizan, ruptured the Saudi segment of the Trans-Arabian pipeline near the Iraqi border. Grenades were lobbed in the British protectorate of Aden in a grim continuation of the violence that has killed 72 people in the past two years. Bombs went off in the Yemen port city of Hodeida, and there were explosions in both Cairo and Damascus...
Israel bagged another Arab MIG during the week-this one without firing a shot. After sending a note to the Israeli air force earlier this month, Iraqi air force Captain Mounir Rowfa, 30, flew his MIG-21 from Al Rashid Air Force Base near Baghdad to an undisclosed Israeli airbase, and gave the West its first closeup look at the Soviets' 1,200-m.p.h. fighter. Rowfa claimed that he had been planning his defection for months because of religious discrimination (he is a Catholic) and Iraq's war against the Kurds...
...inflicting a painful wound. Three blocks up The Drag, Basketball Coach Billy Snowden of the Texas School for the Deaf stepped into the doorway of the barbershop where he was having his hair cut and was wounded in the shoulder. Outside the Rae Ann dress shop on The Drag, Iraqi Chemistry Student Abdul Khashab, 26, his fiancée Janet Paulos, 20, whom he was to have married next week, and Student-Store Clerk Lana Phillips, 21, fell wounded within seconds of each other. At Sheftall's jewelers, Manager Homer Kelley saw three youths fall wounded outside, was helping to haul...
...sight all too familiar to turbulent Iraq, which generally averages at least two revolts a year. Automatic rifles cracked through the streets. Seven Iraqi air force MIG-19s whined low over the presidential palace, peppering it with rockets. Tanks took up positions at the Baghdad radio station. For the second time in ten months, former Premier Aref Abdel Razzak, 42, was up to his old tricks, launching a coup in the name of Nasser-style socialism. The bulk of the army rallied to the side of the government, quashing the uprising. The difference was that last week President Abdel Rahman...
...thing that apparently spurred Razzak to action was the imminent implementation of what could be Aref's biggest achievement in office. Over nationwide television the day before, Iraqi Premier Abdel Rahman Bazzaz announced a twelve-point peace program for ending the government's bloody, five-year war with the 1,000,000 fiercely independent Kurdish tribesmen living in Iraq's mountainous northeast. For years the Kurds have been demanding a measure of autonomy from the Baghdad government, and Razzak realized that a settlement might well make Aref and Bazzaz so popular as to be almost invincible...