Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vitamin D. This deficiency was aggravated by the diminished sunlight of the ice age, and eventually caused rickets. Now, the most detailed and sympathetic picture yet of Neanderthal man comes from extensive diggings by an American-led expedition in a mountain cave near the village of Shanidar in Iraqi Kurdistan...
...after Nixon returned to Washington, intelligence sources passed along unconfirmed reports of movements in Jordan by both the Iraqis and the Syrians. Iraq has kept about 18,000 troops and 100 tanks in the country with Hussein's approval since the Six-Day War in 1967. The White House considered an Iraqi assault on Hussein's troops more likely, partly because Soviet officers serve with Syrian troops and presumably could keep those forces in check. A note from Moscow advised Washington that the Russians had no intention of intervening in Jordan and were trying to discourage others, including the Syrians...
...olive-green emblems of the P.L.A. Actually, the emblems had been hastily painted, and most of the equipment and troops belonged to the Syrian army's reserve in Damascus. They were rolling into Jordan not only to help the fedayeen but also to embarrass the rival Iraqi Baathist government. Baghdad, which keeps a 12,000-man division in Jordan for the war with Israel, refused to order its troops to move against Hussein...
...against the moderate Beirut regime. Nothing but scorn is reserved for the kingdom of Jordan; Atassi is fond of saying that "the liberation of Palestine passes through Amman," presumably along with Syrian tanks. Nor is neighboring Iraq counted as a friend though it, too, has a Baathist regime. The Iraqi branch of the party has been too independent to suit the Damascene Baathists...
...Israeli Premier Golda Meir arrived in the U.S. for conferences with President Nixon (see following story), the Administration was carefully leaking muted warnings of U.S. intervention. The warnings were chiefly designed to dissuade any invasion by Israel, whose paratroopers were already on the alert to jump into Jordan if Iraqi or Syrian troops came to the aid of the guerrillas. However, an Israeli invasion would undoubtedly be met by some sort of Egyptian response...