Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brink of war - sometimes over ideology, but sometimes over rights to the waters of the Euphrates River. Last fall both governments rushed troops to the border after Iraq complained that Syria's vast new Tabqa dam on the Euphrates, built with Soviet funds and assistance, was depriving Iraqi farmers downstream of necessary water...
...profit. There is nothing in Zionism that hints at racism. To the contrary, many non-Jews, blacks among them, are ardent Zionists. It is the Arabs who call blacks abeed, which means slaves. It is the Arabs who encouraged the pogrom that killed my cousin and hundreds of other Iraqi Jews, and all the oil in the world will not wash that fact away...
...with Israel. They telephoned their demands to a Spanish news agency. Describing the Sinai accord as "treason against the Egyptian people," they said they would kill their hostages if Sadat did not repudiate the Sinai agreement and abandon implementation talks on the accord that are underway in Geneva. The Iraqi and Algerian ambassadors, later joined by those from Jordan and Kuwait, rushed to help their captive colleague. They communicated with the terrorists by passing notes under a door...
...that an operation such as theirs did not serve the Palestinian cause. Meanwhile, Sadat had agreed to have them flown to Algiers if they did not harm their captives. The kidnapers agreed. When an Algerian Ilyushin-18 arrived in Algiers at 3:30 a.m., the three Egyptians, plus the Iraqi and Algerian ambassadors, who had gone along as volunteer hostages to the terrorists, were released unharmed...
...sure exactly how the latest round started. One report was that two Iraqi youths made a pass at a pretty Christian Lebanese girl in a suburb of Beirut. Unfortunately, the suburb was Ain Rumanneh, the stronghold of the right-wing Christian Phalangist Party, where violence broke out last April between Phalangists and Moslems. In no time, according to the story, the Iraqis were attacked by Christians. Before long the incident had somehow escalated into Beirut's third round of street fighting in as many months. The stutter of automatic weapons fire and the thud of rockets and mortars echoed...