Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kurds are a fiercely independent people who inhabit the rugged mountains of northern Iraq as well as parts of Turkey, Syria, the Soviet Union and Iran. Many of them have long yearned to have an independent nation, called Kurdistan, and in 1970, after years of bruising clashes with the Iraqi army, they finally won an agreement that guaranteed regional autonomy by March of this year. As the date approached, neither side could agree on what autonomy meant, and when the pact finally came unstuck, a key problem was a familiar Middle East issue: oil. The Kurds took literally violent exception...
Best Addresses. Kuwaitis and Saudis are also buying feed lots, agricultural land and New York City office buildings, almost all at the best addresses in town, such as Wall Street and Fifth Avenue. Raymond Jallow, chief economist of the United California Bank and himself an Iraqi, says he knows of several shopping centers and office buildings that Arabs have bought in California, ranging in price from $1 million to $10 million. Dr. Jallow expects such investment to increase "twentyfold in the next two years...
...October Arab-Israeli war brought a temporary truce, and diplomatic relations were reestablished. Iraq then felt free to send an army division to face the Israelis on Syria's Golan Heights. With the ceasefire, the Iraqi troops were again posted on the Iranian frontier. Inevitably, a series of border incidents led to last week's duel...
Both sides now accuse each other of massing troops on the border. Ironically, as long as the Arab-Israeli cease-fire holds, the Iraqi-Iranian conflict will almost certainly grow more bitter and more bloody...
Most of the noncoms and privates were reservists and glad to be done with war. "We may have to come back," said an Iraqi-born elevator technician from Jaffa who had been serving as a mortarman, "but in the meantime I want to live a little." Added a Tel Aviv housepainter: "We can manage out here at the front all right, but we have problems at home. My business has gone to hell, I've got debts up to my neck, and the pay they give you for reserve service ($190 a month) doesn't cover everything when...