Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...producing nations seem certain to win concessions on both points. Seized by the spell of economic nationalism, more and more of them are threatening to take drastic action. The Iraqis have demanded a 20% share in the production facilities of Iraq Petroleum Co., which is owned by five international oil firms, including Jersey Standard. The ownership plan bogged down in the face of the company's compensation claims growing out of a government seizure ten years ago. To speed things up, Iraqi officials announced ominously that they were "scrutinizing closely" current financial records. In Venezuela, under a recently passed...
...Peking delegates fairly gloated. Glaring over the speakers' rostrum at Bush, Iraqi Ambassador Talib El-Shi-bib mockingly suggested that if the U.S. still wanted to save a seat for Chiang Kaishek, "it is very welcome to take him and put him in place of the American delegation." With that, Nationalist Foreign Minister Chow Shu-kai stood up, walked to the rostrum and announced that he would "not take part in any further proceedings." Amid sympathetic applause, he then led his five-member delegation out of the hall. It was the most dignified gesture in a tableau that a British...
...rifles, tanks, armored personnel carriers and F-104 Starfighters from the U.S., the King was well prepared for an all-out war against what Premier Tal described as guerrilla "terror, brutality and sabotage." The government ordered the fedayeen to move to a stretch of flat, waterless desert toward the Iraqi border. The fedayeen stayed put-as the government expected-and the army moved...
...Hebrew), many of them descendants of the Polish and Russian Jews who founded Israel, rule the country. The Sephardim feel discriminated against because of their cultural shortcomings. Only 3% of all top government officials and 20% of the Knesset, or Parliament, are Sephardim. In the 18-man Cabinet, only Iraqi-born Police Minister Shlomo Hillel is from an Arab-speaking country. Fully 60% of Sephardic children drop out of high school; at the college level, 95% of the student population are Ashkenazim...
Three Fronts. The Panthers have helped spark a long-overdue debate in Israel on the problems that bloom with peace. It was Police Minister Hillel, the Iraqi Jew who made good, who defined the danger most clearly. In Tel Aviv recently, he told a Labor Party rally: "Israel is faced with a struggle on three equally important fronts-security, economic and social. It cannot afford to lose any one of them...