Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then, two weeks ago, Pakistani intelligence agents discovered a large cache of Soviet-made arms at the Iraqi embassy in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. Bhutto charged that the arms had been smuggled in to aid a civilian coup against him, though he has offered no conclusive proof. He used the alleged plot as an excuse to oust the Iraqi ambassador, sack the two governors and send additional troops into Baluchistan...
...dozen members. Among them were Dan Vered, 28, a fellow Sabra and a high school math teacher in the small town of Kfar Saba east of Tel Aviv; David Kupfer, 26, a sometime petty thief and burglar as well as a dedicated Communist; and Yeheskel Cohen, 30, an Iraqi-born hotel clerk who speaks six languages...
...Zilkha is a multinational entrepreneur. An Iraqi-born Jew, he was educated at Williams College in Massachusetts, is a U.S. citizen, and lives in England. After spending 15 years in the Manhattan, London and Paris offices of his family's banking business, he decided that "I wanted to do something more exciting." Backed by the family's money, he bought some drugstores and tacked on maternity and child-care sections. He soon concluded that mothers prefer stores that sell only baby products and have clerks who are expert in such matters as maternity undergarments and baby carriages. "Mothers...
Some Arabs are directly involved in violence. The home of an Iraqi arrested last month in Cologne contained 49 weapons and parts of 50 more. Other Arab activists conduct routine intelligence activities, such as tracking Israeli delegations and logging the movements of Israeli planes. El Al crews report that since the beginning of the year, they have been followed during almost every European stopover from the time they leave the airport on arrival until they take off again...
...Munich raid was only the most dramatic example of Arab terrorism in Europe. There were assassination attempts in London last year on a Jordanian ambassador and an Iraqi ex-Premier. In The Netherlands, the parents-in-law of Andre Spitzer, one of the Olympians slain at Munich, received a stream of telephone calls threatening the lives of Spitzer's widow and baby daughter. Eventually, Israeli security agents had to help the Spitzers leave the country secretly. Only France seems to have been spared such incidents, presumably because Arab terrorists do not wish to embarrass a government that is supplying...