Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week tried a lover's trick to split his foes: he began wooing Syria's Baathist ally, Iraq. In a coaxingly worded invitation, Nasser urged Iraq's President Abdul Salam Aref to visit Cairo "to see personally how much the Egyptian people like you and their Iraqi brothers." Though known to have pro-Nasser sympathies, Aref played it safe by politely refusing the invitation, and pointedly phoned Syria's Bitar to assure him of Iraq's support...
...black plot to plunge Iraq into a sea of blood," proceeded to round up leading Nasser sympathizers. Among those arrested were three generals, five colonels, two ex-Cabinet ministers, and the organizer of the pro-Nasser Arab Socialist Union Party, Abdel Razzak Shabib. By week's end, 180 Iraqi Nasserites were behind bars and facing trial...
What the Kurds are demanding is regional autonomy with a Kurdish legislature and executive council, a proportionate share for Kurds of all revenues, oil royalties and foreign aid and, finally, special Kurdish army units with the sole right to garrison Kurdistan. The Iraqi government last week stiffly rejected the Kurdish memorandum, offering them instead only local self-government in a restricted mountain area that would have excluded virtually all major Kurdish population centers...
Shoot on Sight. At week's end, as their delegates still wrangled in Baghdad, both the Kurdish rebels and the Iraqi army prepared for the worst. The government proclaimed a dusk-to-dawn curfew around northern Iraq's oilfields, pump stations, airfields, and military depots, warned that violators would be "shot on sight." Iraqi troops blocked all roads leading into the Zagros Mountains. Nearly three-quarters of the army was busy building concrete pillboxes and fortifications covering the mountain passes...
...during the cease-fire the Kurds were not idle. Food has been stockpiled, arms replenished, and a standing army of 35,000 readied for battle, backed by a reserve of 100,000. The rebels are buttressed by scores of Kurdish officers who deserted from the Iraqi army, and are linked by a network of 100 captured field radio sets. But at week's end, the government called for more negotiations and promised to reconsider Kurdish demands. In turn, the Kurds agreed to hold up hostilities. "We don't want the responsibility for starting the war again," said...