Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moderation in the Middle East seems to be spreading. Syria, in a surprise move, recently extended for six months the mandate of another U.N. peace force on the Golan Heights. Some observers saw the move as part of a Damascus plan to shift troops from the Golan to the Iraqi border because of a continuing dispute between Syria and Iraq over the sharing of Euphrates River water. Last week Syria unexpectedly deferred that confrontation by promising to release more Euphrates water for Iraq from behind the new, slowly filling Tabqa Dam. Syrian President Hafez Assad also scheduled a visit...
Magic Power. In their foreign policy, the Iraqi Baathists spearheaded the Arab "rejection front" against Israel, refusing to accept even United Nations' peace resolutions on the Middle East, much less the Jewish state's right to exist. Iraq consistently championed extremists within the Palestine Liberation Organization and also threatened Kuwait, claiming at one point that the tiny nearby sheikdom was historically part of Iraq. Armed by the Soviets, Baghdad's rulers quarreled with Iran not only over borders, but also over the minority of 2 million non-Arab Iraqi Kurds. When Tehran backed the Kurds' demands...
...regimes have conflicting visions of Arab unity, compounded by some practical problems. Currently, Iraq's relations with Syria are at the breaking point over disposition of water from the Euphrates River. Baghdad charges that Damascus has deliberately stored up so much water behind its new Tabqa Dam that Iraqi crops have been ruined and that 3 million Iraqis who depend on the river are short of drinking water. Saudi Petroleum Minister Sheik Zaki Yamani, whose negotiating skills have been honed at endless meetings of Middle East oil moguls, has been mediating between them. The split is so deep that...
...creating shortages for 3 million Iraqis. Exchanges over the situation have grown so heated that Syria has sealed the dam off and alerted troops to possible sabotage by Iraqi commandos...
...newspapers last week eliminated all mention of the Kurds-the situation looked desperate for the Kurds. They were attacked by waves of Soviet-supplied Tupolev bombers and T-62 tanks; Baghdad jubilantly reported hundreds of rebels killed. Kurdish spokesmen insisted that Barzani's forces had shot down two Iraqi jets, destroyed six tanks and had killed 300 Iraqi soldiers...