Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zagros Mountains of Eastern Iraq reverberated last week with the thud of bombs and tank shells as Iraqi troops moved forcefully against Kurdish dissidents dug in on the snow-covered slopes. The heaviest fighting yet in a rebellion that has dragged on for nearly two decades was startling but expectable. Iraq was finally able to move against the Kurds after patching up relations with Iran, which for years had provided the Kurds with the means to withstand Baghdad's most determined attempts to dislodge them...
...Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Shortly before that conference ended, Algerian President Houari Boumedienne dramatically announced that the two neighbors had agreed to settle "problems" that had made them bitter enemies for almost half a century. As the OPEC delegates cheered wildly, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein Takriti embraced each other...
...Turkey, Syria and the Soviet Union. Iran has successfully integrated 650,000 of its own Kurds. Baghdad has promised the Kurds autonomy and proportionate representation in Iraq's Arab, socialist government. But Barzani has held out for independence, and since 1958, his forces have been sniping at the Iraqi army from mountain redoubts near the Iranian border...
...Arab disapproval of the actions of three guerrillas who first attempted to attack an Israeli airliner at Paris' Orly Airport and then wounded some 20 people in a running battle with French police. "We cannot condone such acts, which only harm French and Palestinian people," said Arafat. The Iraqi government allowed the guerrillas to land at Baghdad in a French airliner that had flown them from Orly, but then arrested them. Either Iraq or the Palestine Liberation Organization may punish the men. Such threats have been made in the past after similar incidents, but never carried out. Whether...
...Arab Liberation Front is composed of Palestinians sympathetic to the radical Iraqi Baath Party. Commanded by Abdel Wahab Kayyali, 37, the A.L.F. has only about 100 full-time fedayeen and is seldom involved in terrorist raids...