Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barzani has long enjoyed aid from his Kurdish brethren in Iran. The mountainous frontier is not only impossible to police, but the Teheran government-anxious to avoid open revolt among its own 3,000,000 Kurds-has not strained itself trying. Last month Iraqi troops, opening yet another "offensive" against "Barzani's gang," pursued Kurdish rebels across the ill-defined border into Iran, while Iraqi MIG jets strafed Kurds in villages on the Iranian side. Iran charged that a 150-man Iraqi force shelled the Iranian village of Tang-e-Hammam, executed two captured Iranian gendarmes, and hacked their...
Such veneration was shrewdly earned. Having negotiated Kuwait's independence from Britain in 1961, Abdullah (with British help), resisted Iraqi threats to occupy his realm, then turned enmity to friendship with a loan. He created a Parliament to share his power and refused to veto its actions even when he disapproved of them. With $700 million a year in oil income, Kuwait became one of the world's major financial powers; its millions on deposit in London are a principal prop for the hard-pressed British pound. While his people enjoyed free education, medical care and telephone service...
...declared it was time for a turn to private industry and Western foreign in vestments. Moreover, guaranteeing in dividual rights in a fashion unheard of in modern Iraq, Bazzaz, the quiet, Western-oriented technician whom President Abdul Salem Aref installed two months ago, decreed that henceforth no Iraqi citizen may be arrested without a warrant signed personally by himself or two other high officials. Strongman Aref himself chimed in to announce that "Iraqi socialism is based on the Koran and not on Karl Marx...
...government had arranged for some 10,000 to hit the streets in Tunis. Tossing the "madman" epithet right back at Cairo, the mob paraded with banners reading "Palestinians recognize in Bourguiba their real defender" and "A firing squad for Nasser!", then broke through police lines to stone the Iraqi embassy and smash down the door at the Egyptian. Ambassadors took wing like homing pigeons. Egypt huffily ordered its envoy out of Tunisia, and in a single day Tunisian diplomats to Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad arrived back in Tunis...
...currency is in strong demand for no apparent reason, it is often a signal to the shrewd Lebanese experts that someone is buying it up to send back home in order to finance a coup. Example: just before Abdul Karim Kassem took power in Iraq in 1958, the Iraqi dinar's price moved up sharply. The traffic goes the other way too: when the rich in a particular country get worried about impending trouble (for instance, before Nasser started nationalizing), they are apt to move their money to Lebanon, ready to follow in person if necessary. "Money...